The first ever annotated edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Descent of Man” will be published this month; very welcome news indeed to someone such as myself with a passion for… well, let’s just say that in addition to liking big books, I also like small notes.
Cockroaches, cowbirds, gulls, raccoons; all widely derided animals, and yet all also remarkable in their lives and ecological roles if only ill-informed popular prejudices are put aside to learn more about them. Prof. Marlene Zuk provides a superb opportunity to do exactly this in her new book “Outsider Animals.”
To write that I’m pleased that Seabrooke Leckie’s “Moths of Western North America” has finally been brought to publication by Princeton University Press is like writing that Henry VIII had minor marital commitment challenges; I’m positively giddy with excitement about it.
Some years ago, I failed to make a planned journey to India as I caught a nasty case of the flu just before I was scheduled to depart. Because of this, I didn’t get to use the copy of Princeton University Press’ “Birds of India” that I had been studying for two months prior in preparation for the trip.