Checking in with Mark Avery, I found him contemplating the tangled bank – not Darwin’s famous tangled bank, mind you; rather Lev Parikian’s forthcoming Into the Tangled Bank from Elliott & Thompson, which he has taken up in his most recent Sunday Book Review.
Fully titled in the delightfully Victorian manner Into the Tangled Bank; In Which Out Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature, Maestro Parikian’s (to afford him the title he fully deserves as a result of his conducting) book is scheduled to be published this coming July; however as Mark is who Mark is, he has managed to secure a copy in advance.
The book being a look into how the British interact with nature, both presently as well in days past, as much about nature itself, Mark describes it as “a light read, as opposed to a heavy one” but not “lightweight,” with text that “skips along with levity and wit.” I know I’m certainly keen to get a look at a copy myself – perhaps one day I’ll have the opportunity.
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.
