For the next fortnight, Princeton University Press is holding an online book tour for Richard Crossley’s forthcoming The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors. Each day the tour will move to a new brace of websites or blogs.
Newly Noted Books
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not yet been fully reviewed.
Antarctica; a Biography
For as long as its existence has been known, the frozen continent at the bottom of the world has variously been the much sought-after prize of explorers, scientists, conservationists and politicians; often at the same time.
Terra Tempo: The Four Corners of Time
The second volume in the Terra Tempo series, The Four Corners of Time rejoins the three young heroes of the first Terra Tempo volume, Ice Age Cataclysm!, in a new adventure that will take them much further back in time.
Oregon Geology
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.