J.B.S. Haldane famously said that, judging from His works, God must have an inordinate fondness for beetles, and if The Book of Beetles: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature’s Gems is any indication, so does its author Patrice Bouchard.
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
J.B.S. Haldane famously said that, judging from His works, God must have an inordinate fondness for beetles, and if The Book of Beetles: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature’s Gems is any indication, so does its author Patrice Bouchard.
Like many readers of The Well-read Naturalist, I have long been drawn not only to books on natural history subjects themselves but to other works as well – memoirs, novels, etc. – written by authors who live or lived in close touch with nature. Needless to say, Ms. Ingalls Wilder was indeed such an author.
In the world of natural history books, few things elicit more excitement than a new edition of a much-respected classic work. Thus when I opened a recently-arrived package from Mountain Press and discovered in it a freshly printed copy of Marli Miller’s Roadside Geology of Oregon, Second Edition I was rendered nearly speechless.
I was very glad to see that a new, fully updated third edition of this volume of the truly brilliant Very Short Introduction series from Oxford University Press has now been released under a new title – Climate Change – that reflects the continued increase in understanding of this global phenomenon.