As my impromptu urban naturalizing activities have mostly only gained me quizzical looks and the odd hesitant question, I long thought I was the only person who did such things. Then I recently discovered the writings of Amanda Tuke.
Wild Pavements
UK
Living with Lynx
For those who live in areas that have been without such large animals as lynx, wolves and bears for decades and even centuries, the proposition of them being returned to their former ranges is one fraught with a range of emotions, some positive and others no so much. Dr. Jonny Horton’s “Living with Lynx” explores these as well as the research and arguments behind re-wilding.
The Natural History of Selborne (Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection)
As the date on which this brief essay will be published marks the three-hundred-and-fourth anniversary of the Rev. Gilbert White’s birth in 1720 at the very same location as the parish he so lovingly chronicled, it seems only appropriate to bring you news of the most recently published edition of his natural history classic epistolary book “The Natural History of Selborne.”
Groundbreakers
Just how much of a disruption the extirpation of Wild Boar from Great Britain caused, and how the modern day human inhabitants of the area are accommodating themselves to the recent re-introduction of these long-absent artiodactyls to it, are explored at length by Chantal Lyons in her recently published book “Groundbreakers; The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar.”