I’m beginning to suspect that Stephen Rutt dislikes book reviewers.
Not so very long ago, I opened a parcel from Elliott & Thompson that contained a lovely copy of Mr. Rutt’s new “The Seafarers; a Journey Among Birds.” An examination of the history and ecological significance of seabirds in Britain, as well as something of a love letter to them and the remove lives they lead, it looked very much like just the sort of book that I would fancy.
Every so often a new natural history book is published that when you first see the cover you find yourself saying “Wow! I bet that’s going to be quite an interesting book!” Such was my response upon seeing a copy of Sébastien Reeber’s new Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide from Princeton University Press. […]
One of the most valuable bits of advice – so it has been proven to me by experience – that I received back when I first took up bird watching was “always look at the ducks.” The logic was that ducks, being – like crows and gulls – so commonly seen by most people in […]