If I’m honest – and I always try my best to be – prior to the arrival of a copy of “Celebrating Birds; an Interactive Field Guide Featuring Art from Wingspan,” I was wholly unaware that there existed a bird-centered board game named Wingspan, or that it was as remarkably popular as it has become in the relatively short time since its introduction in 2019.
Focusing on the natural history of the British Isles, Mr. Eatherley takes up the search for the stories behind some of the “endless succession of animals, plants, fungi and other alien lifeforms” that have taken to calling the Isles home over the past centuries, and indeed, facing up to the reality that it’s now “often hard to work out what actually is native, and what is foreign.” (There’s a larger metaphor in there somewhere…)
It was two o’clock in the morning. Having just arrived in England mid-afternoon of the preceding day, I was severely jet-lagged and just drifting off to sleep in a farm-field facing room of the Berkshire countryside hotel that would be my lodging for the first half of my stay in the UK. Suddenly, out of […]
Earlier this month, Mark took Professor Dieter Helm’s new “Green and Prosperous Land; a Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside” as the subject for his Sunday book review.