I’m beginning to suspect that Stephen Rutt dislikes book reviewers.
Not so very long ago, I opened a parcel from Elliott & Thompson that contained a lovely copy of Mr. Rutt’s new “The Seafarers; a Journey Among Birds.” An examination of the history and ecological significance of seabirds in Britain, as well as something of a love letter to them and the remove lives they lead, it looked very much like just the sort of book that I would fancy.
As of 2019, the largest carnivore (well, mostly, and at least, officially) in the UK is the Badger, an adult boar (male) of which is, on average, just over ten kilograms in weight and just under a meter in length. The largest herbivore in the same region is the Red Deer, the stag of which […]
The largest land animal species presently to be found in Great Britain is the Red Stag; after that, the Roe Deer, a few smaller deer, then the Badger and the Fox. However not so very long ago – a few thousand years or so, one would have seen a vastly different megafauna; Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros, Cave Lion, Cave Hyaena, and (my personal favorite) Irish Elk all roamed the ‘Sceptered Isle. So what happened to them? Why are they no longer to be seen – in Britain or anywhere, for that matter?
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?”