When Dr. Boria Sax set out to discover the truth behind the famous ravens that inhabit – indeed, are kept at – the Tower of London, he almost immediately encountered divergent and conflicting histories pertaining to them.
City of Ravens
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When Dr. Boria Sax set out to discover the truth behind the famous ravens that inhabit – indeed, are kept at – the Tower of London, he almost immediately encountered divergent and conflicting histories pertaining to them.
Such a wide-angle overview of nature is only possible for a limited geographic area if the book in which it is contained is to be sufficiently compact to fit into a jacket pocket or field bag; which is why the Kaufmans limited the scope of this field guide to the nature of just New England.
Long before there were digital cameras in every mobile phone – or for that matter long before there were digital cameras or mobile phones – many bird watchers considered a pencil suitable for drawing and a small sketch pad essential elements of their field kit.
Bringing to a subject that is all-too-often considered “icky” by even some natural history enthusiasts, The Bug Chicks combine their extensive education and experience in the field of entomology with a delightfully humor that puts their audiences at ease with creatures from which they might otherwise recoil and as a result allows them to learn just how fascinating arthropods can be and how important they are to the natural world.