Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist; A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World,” has been selected by Blackwell’s as their pick for the non-fiction Book of the Month for July 2025.
Why Fish Don’t Exist is Blackwell’s Pick for July
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Beginning to Look Up
As one who added the study of astronomy to my natural philosophy repertoire rather late in life, I found it a bit challenging to get the gist of just what I was looking at whenever I cast my eyes skyward (and if I’m honest, I very often still do). Not that there aren’t a number of worthy books offering guidance regarding “what is what” up there; the challenge was that I had long ago become accustomed to terrestrial observation – beginning, as one so often does, with the observation of birds and its use of field marks and other similar visual cues. However while the skills acquired in learning to identify birds have a high level of transferability to learning to identify, for example, insects, none of them really apply in any significant way in learning to identify astronomical objects.
Really Great Apes
As a naturalist, I have a particularly wide range of interests across the natural history spectrum. Be the subject at hand fish or fern, tree or turtle, badger or bird, I’m keen to learn more about it. However there has long been one particular branch of the tree of life that has never previously – […]
Habitats of North America
Surrounded by stacks of Princeton’s most recent works across the many disciplines of natural history, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a book I couldn’t recall having yet known: Phil Chaon’s and Iain Campbell’s “Habitats of North America: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists.”