New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Just how much of a disruption the extirpation of Wild Boar from Great Britain caused, and how the modern day human inhabitants of the area are accommodating themselves to the recent re-introduction of these long-absent artiodactyls to it, are explored at length by Chantal Lyons in her recently published book “Groundbreakers; The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar.”
Not so very long ago, the new volume “Ponds, Pools, and Puddles” by Jeremy Biggs and Penny Williams found its way from Devon to my post box in Oregon. The 148th volume in the series, this most recently published volume takes, as I’m confident you could easily guess, as its subject the ecology of the smaller-than-lake sized bodies of fresh water as they appear in the U.K.
In his most recent book “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman examines the lives and activities of the colourful, larger than life, often eccentric individuals whose names are now famous in the history of Nineteenth Century ornithology to discover what they accomplished and what they overlooked or simply got wrong.
For those seeking to understand the natural history of the northern Ohio area, particularly Lake Erie’s western basin, Louis W. Campbell’s writings can open up a treasure trove of information about it. A good place to begin is his 1995 book “The Marshes of Southwestern Lake Erie,” still in print and available from Ohio University Press.