For all those of you in the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines who upon hearing of the publication earlier this yea of Tim Birkhead’s new Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation by Viking in the U.K. immediately began asking “When will we have an opportunity to buy a copy of this book in our own respective countries?” I bring good tidings from Princeton University Press. They have their edition of Birds and Us ready to be officially released on August 9th.
Not so very far along my reading of Helen Scales’ new “Eye of the Shoal,” I found myself reading about the friendship and collaboration of John Ray and Francis Willughby on the 1686 book “De Historia Piscium.” However as soon as I read Willughby’s name, my mind immediately flashed to the copy of Tim Birkhead’s recently published book “The Wonderful Mr Willughby; The First True Ornithologist” sitting on my desk. Ichthyology, ornithology – one person publishing foundational books in them both… Those were the days!
Traveling on business as I have been recently, it hasn’t taken long for me to fall behind on keeping you all up to date on what Mark’s been reviewing over on his blog. As it turns out, he been quite busy indeed! He’s published three full book reviews since we last checked in on him.