New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Rachel Poliquin‘s The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing isn’t a book that fits neatly into any single category. Given its author’s interest and expertise in natural history museology and collecting, it would at first seem to fall into the history of natural history. However it also contains significant veins of art and cultural criticism, […]
Robert Michael Pyle, author of such remarkable books as Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage, Walking the High Ridge : Life As Field Trip, and most recently, The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion, made a rare guest blogger appearance in the Village Books Blog where he discussed his favorite nature books.
In addition to their many other charms, islands are ecologically fascinating. Each one is unique, many are home to some of the world’s most remarkable plants and animals, and all susceptible to the effects of human activity. Roger Lovegrove, former director of the RSPB in Wales knows this, and in his recently published Islands Beyond the […]
The beginning of autumn 2012 saw the publication of the one-hundred-twenty-first volume of the Collins’ New Naturalists series Partridges by G.R. Potts. Devoted entirely to the three species of partridge found in Great Britain, the Grey, Red-legged and Chukar, Partridges contains not only extensive life histories of these birds but devotes significant space to the relationship between […]