Due to a chain of unfortunate events wholly outside of his control that gutted the funding behind young Frank Nischk’s planned hummingbird research, he found himself cooling his heels in Columbia for an extended period of time, and finally securing a new research project that rather than presenting him with the daily opportunity to marvel at Nature’s veritable flying jewels instead led to him daily staring intently at …
For those who have not yet read Rick McIntyre’s “The Rise of Wolf 8” and “The Reign of Wolf 21,” I strongly advise you to get busy reading these extraordinary two books because his “The Redemption of Wolf 302” is scheduled to be published by Greystone Books in mid October of this year and you’ll want to be ready to begin reading it the moment it reaches book shop shelves.
Translated from the original German by Jane Billinghurst, whose superb skills have brought Peter Wohlleben’s other Greystone published editions into English, his forthcoming “The Heartbeat of Trees” presents a more human-centered examination of the relationship we have long had – and according to Herr Wohlleben, still have, if we take note of it – with the natural world.
Of all the creatures with which humans have been associated – both physically as well as spiritually – from times that long predate written records, bears have been among the foremost. The source of both fear as well as of fascination; alternately hated and revered, bears have for millennia been the embodiment of our nightmares as well as of our greatest desires for power within as well as over our environment.