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The Lost Spells

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Back in 2017, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris joined together to create their remarkably successful book “The Lost Words” that sought to, and succeeded in, returning to us all the great gift of a collection of words that had been all-but-lost. Not surprisingly, as words have long been associated with powers that some have often referred to as magical, they have joined together once again to produce “The Lost Spells,” a book that shows every likelihood of rivaling the popularity of their previous one.

Lost Among the Birds

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Ordinarily, I tend to avoid birding memoirs with approximately the same effort as I avoid elective root canals. For while I am an avid bird watcher myself, I have never quite found it all that interesting to read about other people’s birding adventures – particularly when they’re trying to break some sort of record. So when an advance reading copy of Neil Hayward’s Lost Among the Birds; Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year recently arrived on my desk from Bloomsbury, as you might imagine, I was less than excited about it.

The Lost Elements

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I’ll admit that when I received my advance copy of The Lost Elements; The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side from Oxford University Press, I thought that they had quite possibly achieved publishing Nerdvana. A history of the periodic table is one thing – but its “shadow side?” What dark secrets about it could there possibly be?

Bob Pyle’s Beautiful Iris

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For as many books as Robert Michael Pyle has written, for all the poems of his I’ve read in various periodicals – as well as those I’ve heard him weave into the many talks I’ve heard him deliver, I was astonished to learn that until the publication of Evolution of the Genus Iris his name […]

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