To borrow and slightly adapt a verse from The Little River Band‘s “Cool Change,” Well I was born in the sight of water And it’s there that I feel my best The albatross and the whales they are my brothers For me, this is not just a bit of poetic nicety. Having been born and […]
Just how much of a disruption the extirpation of Wild Boar from Great Britain caused, and how the modern day human inhabitants of the area are accommodating themselves to the recent re-introduction of these long-absent artiodactyls to it, are explored at length by Chantal Lyons in her recently published book “Groundbreakers; The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar.”
Not so very long ago, the new volume “Ponds, Pools, and Puddles” by Jeremy Biggs and Penny Williams found its way from Devon to my post box in Oregon. The 148th volume in the series, this most recently published volume takes, as I’m confident you could easily guess, as its subject the ecology of the smaller-than-lake sized bodies of fresh water as they appear in the U.K.
While in our present time pigs are primarily only found penned on a farm or less commonly roaming deep in the wilds, in the European Middle Ages they occupied a significantly wider range of spaces and interacted with people in many more ways than they now do. Prof. Dolly Jørgensen’s new book “The Medieval Pig” presents and overview of their history during this period.