Let’s face it – natural history enthusiasts can sometimes be a tough lot for whom to buy gifts; especially if you don’t personally share, or even know much about, their particular interests. Alternatively, even if you do share a common interest with the gift-worthy person or people in your life, you might be at a […]
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Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography
Douglas Carlson’s biography is sufficiently expansive in scope to encompass the many facets of Peterson without being unwieldy in length or needlessly excessive in detail.
Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest
In his introduction, William Neill eloquently explains that this new work is not so much a second edition of his earlier guide as it is a metamorphosis of that previous work into something entirely new just as a butterfly itself is to its own previous stage as a caterpillar.
The Golden Key
As luck would have it, I arrived in the city last Friday evening a tad too early for a scheduled gathering at the headquarters of one of my old graduate schools. Not wanting to sit twiddling my thumbs in a lobby before the doors opened, I pointed the Prius down the street to the downtown […]