Having already become familiar with Dan Eatherley‘s writing as the result of reviewing his compellingly page-turning book Bushmaster; Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World’s Largest Viper back in 2016, I wasted no time in seeking out a copy of his new Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here once I learned of its publication by William Collins.
Focusing on the natural history of the British Isles, Mr. Eatherley takes up the search for the stories behind some of the “endless succession of animals, plants, fungi and other alien lifeforms” that have taken to calling the Isles home over the past centuries, and indeed, facing up to the reality that it’s now “often hard to work out what actually is native, and what is foreign.” (There’s a larger metaphor in there somewhere…)
If Invasive Aliens is true to the same dynamic writing style and thoroughness of research Mr. Eatherley showed his readers in Bushmaster, then we should all be in for quite an exciting story indeed.
