One of the things I most enjoy about Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews is his coverage in them of books that don’t always make it across the Atlantic. Such is the case once again with his review this week of Prof. Philip Howse’s “Bee Tiger; The Death’s Head Hawk-moth Through the Looking-glass” from Brambleby Books.
I remember – I doubt in fact I shall ever forget – my first visit to the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre at Cley; it rendered me speechless. As an American, I am perpetually in awe of the astonishing wildlife reserves I have the privilege to visit in the UK, but this one truly was like nothing I had seen before, even among all the other jewels of the British wildlife reserves.