For his Sunday Book Review this week, Mark takes an pre-publication sneak peek into the forthcoming “Europe’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies” from Princeton University Press.
Mark Looks Forward to Summer Odes
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A British Perspective on North American Wolves
Whenever I visit the UK, I am invariably asked about my experiences with large animals. Bears, moose, puma, wolves – they’re all a source of curiosity to enquirers from a land where the largest wild land mammal most people will ever see is a Fox. I welcome such opportunities to talk of North America’s charismatic megafauna, of course, as it gives me the chance to in turn learn more about how the British people see the wildlife of their own land.
Mark on Mark
While Mark didn’t post a new Sunday Book Review this past weekend, he did receive a welcome message from his own agent regarding one of his own books: “Remarkable Birds.” Published by Thames & Hudson in 2016, it has since been translated from the original English into French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian, and is to date his “highest earning book to date.”
Mark Returns
The challenge with life lately (say, over the past two years, give or take) is that it has been throwing me so many curve balls – or to use the British vernacular, bowling me so many googlies – that it’s been all I can do just to keep the Aspidistra flying. And one of the many ways I’ve let it fall over this time has been my neglect of proper correspondence with Mark Avery.