Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
Wanderland
Book News and Reviews
This category contains full-length reviews of, short essays about, and new pertaining to books.
The Cow
There’s a very good chance that when you are driving or riding along a road or track adjacent to a field in which cattle are present that you inexplicably say – to no one in particular – “cows,” or perhaps even give voice to a soft but prolonged and emphatic “mooooo.”
Flames of Extinction
Australia’s “black summer” of 2020 – the most devastating wildfire season in the modern recorded history of that continent – was not only responsible for a level of devastation that stunned all who either witnessed it in person or saw the heart-breaking photos of it, it is also thought by many involved in studying global climate change to be a precursor of wildland fire seasons to come.
Letting You In On a Secret
I’m not quite certain what has brought widespread interest in fungi to the fore this past decade. Perhaps it has been the expansion of awareness of mycelial networks and their relationship to forests, or maybe it is related to expanding grass-roots campaigns to legalize psilocybin for medical use in the treatment of PTSD and other […]