Mark Avery’s Sunday book review this week looks at the new “Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” from Pelagic Publishing. Written and edited by a large team of highly skilled researchers, and with the backing of The Mammal Society, this remarkable new book “provides the most up-to-date information on the current distributions of both terrestrial and marine mammals in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.”
Many years ago, when I was just a boy, the night sky seemed much blacker than it does today, but the stars seemed much brighter as well. Camping one long past night at Ft. Stevens State Park, I vividly recall lying on my back with my head outside the tent, looking up at a sky […]
Whenever I visit the UK, I am invariably asked about my experiences with large animals. Bears, moose, puma, wolves – they’re all a source of curiosity to enquirers from a land where the largest wild land mammal most people will ever see is a Fox. I welcome such opportunities to talk of North America’s charismatic megafauna, of course, as it gives me the chance to in turn learn more about how the British people see the wildlife of their own land.
Are you someone who enjoyed reading Melissa Harrison’s “All Among the Barley,” “At Hawthorne Time,” or “Clay?”
Perhaps you’re a regular reader of her “Nature Notebook” column in The Times.