To quote Mr. Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A / I was born in the U.S.A.” As such, and still residing there, I have too often found it too easy to become somewhat isolated from the rest of the world. As a country, the United States is both geographically large and culturally… well, loud might […]
To say I was excited to see a copy of Neha Sinha’s recently published “Wild and Wilful, Tales of 15 Iconic Indian Species” arrive on my desk from HarperCollins India would be an understatement. I have followed Ms. Sinha’s social media postings about India’s natural history for some time and I have learned a remarkable amount from her about both India’s wildlife and the conservation efforts undertaken on the behalf of it.
Having recently read that a new volume of the New Naturalist Library was soon to be available, I had an intuition that Mark Avery already had a copy of it and would soon be publishing one of his Sunday Book Reviews about it. So paying a visit to his blog today I was not on the least surprised to discover that the subject of his most recent review is, of course, David Wilkinson’s “Ecology and Natural History,” New Naturalist Library volume 143.
Originally published by Harper Collins in a US edition in June of 2019, the cover of William McKeever’s “Emperors of the Deep; Sharks; The Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians” depicts a sharply defined photographic image of a shark as it swims boldly yet smoothly through its aquatic realm. However, the visual, as well as psychological, effect of the first UK edition, published by Harper Collins UK in July of 2020 under the somewhat modified title of “Emperors of the Deep; The Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Misunderstood and Important Guardians” is a world away from its American predecessor – and these differences are indeed significant in the first impressions the respective covers make.