Regardless of where your travels might take you in this world, it’s always a good idea to read-up on your destination before you go. For travelling naturalists and wildlife photographers, such preliminary study is not just a good idea, its of paramount importance.
History
No Milk or Sugar for Me, Thank You
Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been a tea drinker. My maternal grandmother and my Aunt Rose, in a good-natured but earnest struggle to ensure that my young tastes would grow to embrace their beverage of choice as opposed to my father’s family’s coffee-drinking traditions, put water-thinned tea in my bottle as a […]
Remarkable Creatures
The search for the solution to what Sir John Herschel famously called the “mystery of mysteries” – how new species come to exist – has brought a myriad of remarkable creatures to the attention of science.
Artifacts of a Naturalist Childhood
The other day while digging through a cabinet in our garage, I stumbled upon a shoebox that had been shoved to the back and that showed signs that it had been there for some time.