While it may seem either too basic to mention or perhaps overly pedantic, the first step in getting to know your binocular is learning to differentiate the words “binocular” and “binoculars.”
Binocular Versus Binoculars
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Back to Basics Through Black and White
After being rejected by four other publishers who thought the market for such a book was too small to be worth their time, when Roger Tory Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was first published on 27 April 1934 by Houghton Mifflin in […]
A Few Late Night Thoughts Reading Lowell Baier’s New Codex
What Mr. Baier offers in this book is not only the facts of the Act and its history but perhaps just if not even more importantly a reminder that as a nation we were once better than we are now, that we aspired to noble goals and by working together could achieve them.
Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland
Continuing with the theme of enormous new books this week here in The Well-read Naturalist, the recently published “Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland” from Princeton University Press in their WILDGuides series is a tome that would indeed cause Neville Longbottom himself to sit up and take notice.