New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Variously interpreted as a political analogy, religious metaphor, fishing encomium, and natural history tract, Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s The Compleat Angler has been continually in print since its initial publication in 1653.
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced that it will be publishing Mark Avery‘s new book A Message from Martha; The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today in late July of 2014 and subsequently in late August in the U.S.
The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was so plentiful across early Nineteenth Century North America that passing flocks were said to block out the sun. By 1900 the last one found in the wild was captured and in 1914 the lone surviving member of the species died in a Cincinnati zoo.
When I was a boy, a number of legal decisions were handed down by a federal judge curtailing the commercial fishing trade on the Columbia River from which my family had made a living since my grandfather first came to the United States from Finland (then Russia) at the age of twelve. Almost immediately following […]