What with my knee surgery at the beginning of June, and the complications arising therefrom, I’ve been quite remiss in my both my own writing as well as keeping up with the writing of others. Now that I’m finally beginning to see a bit of healing and a turn toward a desired direction in my recovery, I’ve begun trying to catch up on what I have missed – most pertinent to this column, the Sunday Book Reviews of Dr. Mark Avery. Likely to the surprise of absolutely no one, he’s been very productive indeed.
Rather than summarize all of the book reviews he’s published during my hiatus, I’m simply going to cite them in chronological order and encourage all to make their own enquiries as respective interests inspire.
- David Chandler’s A Beginner’s Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Ireland
- Tom Bowser’s A Sky Full of Kites
- Jim Crumley’s Lakeland Wild
- Ian Carter’s Human, Nature; A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places
- Kathleen Saunders’ Three Million Wheelbarrows; the Story of the Eau Brink Cut
- Jon Dunn’s The Glitter in the Green; In Search of Hummingbirds
- Sarah Gibson’s Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
- Charles Foster’s The Screaming Sky
- Ian Coghill’s Moorland Matters; the Battle for the Uplands Against Authoritarian Conservation
Happy reading!
Links to Dr. Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews appear in The Well-read Naturalist by special arrangement. You can find all of Mark’s past reviews as well as a wide-ranging collection of his other writings on his Standing Up for Nature website. Mark’s opinions regarding the books he reviews are his own.
