Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, that was itself covered by a larger rock, you likely already know that Baby Birds : An Artist Looks into the Nest by Julie Zickefoose was officially published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, that was itself covered by a larger rock, you likely already know that Baby Birds : An Artist Looks into the Nest by Julie Zickefoose was officially published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today.
When I initially opened the package containing the advance reading copy of Peter B. Logan’s Audubon; America’s Greatest Naturalist and His Journey of Discovery to Labrador that had been sent to me from Ashbryn Press, I must admit that I had not previously heard of Ashbryn Press, or Peter B. Logan for that matter. However…
What with so many of the local fruit trees either in or coming in to bloom right now, I took down a copy of a Johns Hopkins University Press backlist book, William Kerrigan’s Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard; A Cultural History, that was sent to me last year in a shipment of new review copies from that fine publishing house. In it was a note saying “Thought you might be interested in this as well.” Indeed, I remember thinking that it did seem interesting, but what with all the new books needing attention, I never quite got to it.
As all good herpetologists – be they amateur or professional – likely know, it’s been roughly twenty years since the third edition of “A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America” was published. And as might be assumed, quite a lot has changed in the field since that time.