In honor of the University of Oregon Ducks playing the Ohio State Buckeyes in the inaugural college football championship, I thought it might be fun to extend the friendly rivalry into the sphere of natural history books.
In honor of the University of Oregon Ducks playing the Ohio State Buckeyes in the inaugural college football championship, I thought it might be fun to extend the friendly rivalry into the sphere of natural history books.
Of all the places I’ve yet to explore in my life, one near the top of my most desired list is the Mono Lake Basin of California’s eastern Sierra. So when I received news that Marie Read, one of the most accomplished photographers of this area, has a new book from Graphic Arts Books titled Sierra Wings; Birds of the Mono Lake Basin, needless to say, I was very interested indeed.
Not so very long ago I needed to know what the primary language spoken in Tanzania is. I could have turned on the computer, waited for it to go through its start-up protocols, opened a browser and called up Google, in the search field of which I could have entered something like “primary language in […]
The January / February 2015 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest includes two original Well-read Naturalist book reviews. The first takes up the very charming Birds of a Feather; Seasonal Changes on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Colin Rees and Derek Thomas; the second, David Callahan’s fascinating A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects.