I’ve been a bit neglectful of checking in on Mark Avery recently, so I popped over to his website to see what he’s been reading these past months. Turns out, he’s been reading quite a few books for children.
Mark’s Recent Picks of Books for Children
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
A Neglected and Misunderstood Man
Like many people, my knowledge of Robert Fitzroy has long been limited to the sole fact that he was the captain of the H.M.S. Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage upon it. I’d read in Darwin’s own writings that he had held Fitzroy in high esteem, as well as passing mentions elsewhere that Fitzroy and […]
Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America
The first time I saw a flower fly, I natural thought it was a bee.
The second time I saw one, I also thought it was a bee.
Third time – “OK, that has to be a bee.”
Fourth time – “Definitely a bee.”
After about twenty or so, I finally got one right on the first try.
Charles Darwin on Slavery
“Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children—those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own—being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder!…”