For those aurelians who have been eagerly awaiting the publication of Jean-Pierre Moussus’ “Butterflies of Britain and Western Europe and Their Caterpillars: An Identification Guide” to be published in the United States following its publication last December in the United Kingdom, the wait is finally over.
In her recently published book “Beastly Britain; An Animal History,” Prof. Karen R. Jones delights her readers with recountings of the natural as well as social, folkloric, literary, and even linguistic histories of ten iconic British animal species.
For those who live in areas that have been without such large animals as lynx, wolves and bears for decades and even centuries, the proposition of them being returned to their former ranges is one fraught with a range of emotions, some positive and others no so much. Dr. Jonny Horton’s “Living with Lynx” explores these as well as the research and arguments behind re-wilding.
In Dr. Raye’s recently published book “The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife; Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution” we are presented with a most remarkable catalouge of the species that were documented as having been living in these islands before modern population studies of them began.