I’ve been a bit neglectful of checking in on Mark Avery recently, so I popped over to his website to see what he’s been reading these past months. Turns out, he’s been reading quite a few books for children.
Mark’s Recent Picks of Books for Children
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Landfill (U.S. Edition)
I haven’t yet seen a copy of the new U.S. edition of Tim Dee’s highly acclaimed Landfill; Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene here at The Biggest Week in American Birding, but I certainly hope someone will have thought to bring in a few copies so that those in attandance will […]
Teamwork
For those who count themselves regular readers of Mark Avery’s blog, the recent uptick in new book reviews can’t have gone unnoticed. When I recently called up the site, I thought “Blimey! Is Mark doing anything other than reading these days?” However I then noticed by-lines indicating that two of the four most recent reviews were penned by none other than the noted ornithologist Ian Carter acting a as a guest reviewer.
Reading Alexander von Humboldt
After completing my reading of Andrea Wulf‘s award-winning – and justly so – The Invention of Nature; Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, I not surprisingly found myself wanting to take up some of the works of von Humboldt himself. Unfortunately, as my French is very rusty from decades of neglect and my German all but non-existent […]