You’ll not find The Well-read Naturalist participating in many virtual book tours, so when I do, you can be sure it’s for a book that I think is well worth it.
The Truth About Nature
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The Lagoon
Aristotle. The very name itself conjures images of the prototype for all philosophers. Yet was he really the philosopher he is so commonly thought to have been or was he, in fact, the first systematic scientist?
Macdonald, Dee, and Lockhart at the LRB Bookshop
Helen Macdonald, Tim Dee, and James Macdonald Lockhart recently gathered to discuss birds at the London Review Bookshop. Fortunately, for those unable to attend, it was recorded and can now be heard via podcast.
A Very Important Message Indeed
When a female Passenger Pigeon – named Martha by those who tended to her daily needs at the Cincinnati Zoo – died in her cage on 1 September 1914, a species of bird that only a hundred years prior had numbered in the billions forever vanished from the face of the planet. Other bird species, […]