This past summer, I once again took up Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, as my “daily morning read” for most of July and a bit of August. This was perhaps the third or fourth time I’d read the book, but like so many works to which I return, I find I discover something newly […]
I am often asked why I write and publish The Well-read Naturalist. Not by people meaning to be insulting, mind you; rather because – usually – they have recently discovered that I do so for no financial or other intentional benefit to myself. When I tell them that after nearly ten years I continue the […]