Mark Avery had already long since gotten his mustache-accented nose into the pages of Nicola Chester’s “On Gallows Down,” read it thoroughly through, and was likely putting the finishing touches on his review of it around the same time as my copy was being placed in our post box.
This December, a new field guide to over eight hundred of the plants, birds, butterflies, fish, and mammals which inhabit the arctic regions around the globe will be published by Princeton University Press: Sharon Chester’s “The Arctic Guide; Wildlife of the Far North.”