Many of you may be asking right about now “what has Mark Avery been reading recently?” I was curious about that very question myself – so I popped over to his website and as I discovered, he’s been reading quite a lot.
Catching Up With Mark
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You, A Natural History
Of all the many facets of natural history, the one we seem to most frequently overlook is us. Oh we do delve into anthropology and similar topics, but do we really very often get deep beneath the surface of just who we are – and why – all the way down to the cellular, or perhaps even the atomic, level?
The Dark Stuff
Despite how often I’ve read about the U.K.’s mysterious and danger-filled moorlands in the works of Dickens and the Brontës, growing up in the coastal rainforest of the Pacific Northwest as I did it has never fully made sense to me how so many people have for so long perceived such peril in what appears to be simply a softly colored landscape of gently rolling hillocks and the occasional dramatic stone outcrop.
Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians, Fourth Edition
Each time the nice people from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s publicity department contact me to say that they have a new Peterson’s Field Guide soon to be released, I always reply with a note that includes the text “Western? ;-)” As nine times out of ten they’re Eastern, this has become a friendly little joke between us. However every so often a new – or updated edition of a – Western guide does make an appearance.