Tyrannosaurus rex. Back when I was a boy, there wasn’t a child worth his or her collection of little plastic dinosaurs that didn’t know the name of this (then, at least) most fearsome – and singular – of creatures.
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
Newly Noted Books
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not yet been fully reviewed.
The Wood for the Trees
This coming December, Dr. Fortey’s most recent book, “The Wood for the Trees; One Man’s Long View of Nature,” will see publication in the U.S. This new book sees the author describing what he has found on his four acres in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire and what can be interpreted about the larger ecological systems of our planet from these discoveries.
Birds of Montana
In 1921, the journal Pacific Coast Avifauna published “A Distributional List of the Birds of Montana with Notes on the Migration and Nesting of the Better Known Species” by Aretas A. Saunders. Since that time it has remained the only comprehensive reference book to the bird species of that state – until now.
Wildlife of Southeast Asia
Whenever I am bound for some far-off destination, at least one of the books I stuff into my already over-stuffed bag will be a relevant volume of the Princeton Field Guides or Princeton Pocket Guides series. I make it a point of maintaining an extensive collection of them for just such purposes.