New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Of all the natural history disciplines, many aspiring naturalists find geology to be one of the toughest nuts – or perhaps more appropriately, rocks – to crack. Fortunately for those aspiring to learn the subject in Oregon the sixth edition of Oregon Geology by Elizabeth L. Orr and William N. Orr has recently been published.
Despite their beauty, variation, and ubiquity, mosses are not something with which even some of the most experienced naturalists among us are necessarily familiar; however this new Princeton Field Guide may be just to making the study of them much more popular.
I thought I’d take a short break from writing a review of one of the most problematic books I’ve yet read about Charles Darwin to make a recommendation of one of the best collections I know of some of the most important and frequently referenced books he himself wrote.
There has been a noticeable increase in the number of biographies of famous naturalists as of late. Not surprisingly, Charles Darwin is among those taken up as a subject of one of these books: Paul Johnson’s Darwin: Portrait of a Genius published by Penguin Press.