New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Dr. Erica McAlister knows quite a lot about flies – something that she no doubt finds handy as Collections Manager for Diptera, Siphonaptera, Archnida and Myriapoda at the Natural History Museum. So as you might expect, news of her forthcoming book “The Secret Life of Flies” has been greeted with great excitement by naturalists around the world.
What with all the recent bad news for and involving wolves in the press these past few weeks, I was particularly gladdened to receive a copy of a new book that recounts the life and adventures of one of my home state’s best known members of the species, Beckie Elgin’s “Journey: The Amazing Story of OR-7, the Oregon Wolf that Made History.”
When the freshly printed copy of the new “Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White” arrived, I made a quick scan of the authors whose writings are collected in it. As it turns out, I know each one, which will make it a somewhat challenging book to review.
The first time I saw a firefly I was stopped dead in my tracks by it. The sudden appearance of this small glowing ember hovering before me as I walked along a forest path made me momentarily suspect that there might indeed be faeries in the world (not saying that there still might not be…).