Not long ago I reported that Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks was soon to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. However in doing so I neglected also to mention the recent publication by this same publisher of the ninth volume in their definitive series cataloging Olmsted’s papers.
The January / February 2015 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest includes two original Well-read Naturalist book reviews. The first takes up the very charming Birds of a Feather; Seasonal Changes on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Colin Rees and Derek Thomas; the second, David Callahan’s fascinating A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects.
Back in July of 2014, The University of Chicago Press published Mark W. Person’s new English translation of Alexander von Humboldt’s famous collection of essays titled Ansichten der Natur (Views of Nature). This work, one of von Humboldt’s most influential – as well as reportedly his own personal favorite – has not seen a new English translation, […]
The past few years have seen quite an increase in the amount of attention given to the state of honeybee populations around the world – and with good reason, for without their work in pollinating a sizable portion of the world’s food plants (as well as a host of other ones as well) much of […]