For his Sunday Book Review this week, Mark takes an pre-publication sneak peek into the forthcoming Europe’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies from Princeton University Press. Written by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash, the same team behind the recently published fourth edition of Britain’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland, and backed by the British Dragonfly Society (a lovely group of people indeed who are high up on the long and growing list of those I shall very much miss seeing due to the absence of the British BirdFair from this calendar year), this forthcoming guide is one I’m very eager to get a look into myself.
Mark is indeed very keen on it, proclaiming it “a marvel of concise clear information,” and declaring his enthusiasm for putting it through its paces in his garden this summer. He promises to let us all know how it goes. I have every confidence that he will.
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.
