One of the things I particularly value about Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews – especially in these days of pestilence when so many publishing houses are “turning inward,” leaving transnational book reviewers, such as myself, to fend for themselves in discovering what’s being released outside the borders of their own respective nations of residence – is the visibility he offers of the many interesting books of nature writing and natural history presently being published in the UK; books that without his reviews of them I might easily have remained unaware.
Such a book is the one he takes up in his most recent review: Andrew Painting’s forthcoming Regeneration; the Rescue of a Wild Land from the independent Scottish publishing house Birlinn. Describing it as “a cracker,” Mark goes on to explain how the book presents the very long-term plans for regeneration of habitats and wildlife that are presently underway, as well as those that are planned for the future, at Mar Lodge in Scotland. He particularly recommends it to all who have read and enjoyed such noteworthy recent works as George Monbiot’s Feral, Isabella Tree’s Wilding, Benedict Macdonald’s Rebirding and Derek Gow’s Bringing Back the Beaver – high praise indeed from Mark for a first-time author.
Please visit Mark’s blog and read his full review of this “cracker” of a new book.
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.
