While Mark didn’t post a new Sunday Book Review this past weekend, he did receive a welcome message from his own agent regarding one of his own books: Remarkable Birds. Published by Thames & Hudson in 2016, it has since been translated from the original English into French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian, and is to date his “highest earning book to date.”
Being a lavishly illustrated combination of ornithological history, avian biology, ecology, and art, it is a delightful book to have on hand to take up in idle moments for a bit of relaxation as well as edification. Mark himself notes “I am quite proud of Remarkable Birds – when I pick it up and read a few pages, as I do now and again to refresh my memory, I don’t squirm at what I wrote back then.” (As an author myself who has squirmed at things I wrote long ago, I fully understand what he means.)
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.
