Mark Avery’s most recent Sunday Book Review takes up a new work by Guy Shrubsole that seeks to answer a very pressing modern question indeed: “Who Owns England?”
Mark Contemplates Ownership
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Thrifty Science
What with all the talk these days of “citizen science,” as opposed to those activities engaged in by profesionals in formal research facilities, one can be forgiven for not immediately calling to mind a time when almost all science was the purview of amateur experimenters making investigations of the things closest to their daily lives through the use of items they had ready-to-hand.
The Hidden Meaning of Birds
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” So spoke Hamlet the famous words challenging the perceived wisdom of what was, is, and can be known about the world. I found myself thinking about them upon the arrival of the copy of the forthcoming “The Hidden Meaning of Birds – A Spiritual Field Guide” by Arin Murphy-Hiscock.
Fishes of the Salish Sea
Every so often, a new book comes along that when first seen causes me simply to stop and stare at it in awe with mouth agape. But never before has the mere picture of such a book caused me to do so – until today.