I remember – I doubt in fact I shall ever forget – my first visit to the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre at Cley; it rendered me speechless. As an American, I am perpetually in awe of the astonishing wildlife reserves I have the privilege to visit in the UK, but this one truly was like nothing I had seen before, even among all the other jewels of the British wildlife reserves.
Thus I was pleased to see that Mark’s Sunday Book Review this week, penned by Ian Carter, took The Worshipful Companies; Images and Poems from the Norfolk Coast by Stuart Medland as its subject. The second in Medland’s works about the area (the first, Rings in the Shingle; Images and Poems about Wildlife at the North Norfolk Coast, was published in 2014), Carter assesses its verses, its photographs, and its companionability as an accompaniment to a cozy evening by the fire.
Links to Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews appear in The Well-read Naturalist by special arrangement. You can find all of Mark’s past reviews as well as a wide-ranging collection of his other writings on his Standing Up for Nature website. Mark’s opinions regarding the books he reviews are his own.
