For his Sunday book review this week, Mark takes up in his most recent review: Andrew Paintings’ forthcoming “Regeneration; the Rescue of a Wild Land” from the independent Scottish publishing house Birlinn. Describing it as “a cracker” and worthy of particularly favorable association with other recent books on the subject of habitat restoration and rewinding.
It was approximately two months ago while out upon my morning walk that I casually looked over at the creek that ran under the second bridge I cross along my usual path and was struck at how the water seemed unnaturally still. Stopping and peering a bit farther over the bridge rail, I discovered the reason: some local beavers had constructed a dam across the flow just before it reached the bridge.
It so often happens this way – not more than half a week or so after a promising new book makes its appearance in my post box, Mark Avery has a review of it posted to his blog. Most recently, the book in question is “Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden” by Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates, as published under the venerable William Collins imprint of HarperCollins UK.