With a format, size, and style of content that is very reminiscent of the original Golden Guides and the Observer’s Books series, the new Princeton University Press Little Books of Nature series is a welcome development indeed.
The British Wildlife Collection was inaugurated in 2012 with the publication of Peter Marren’s “Mushrooms” and has now reached its tenth volume with the upcoming publication in April 2021 of Martin Warren’s “Butterflies.” Not surprisingly, Mark, being Mark, has got hold of an advance copy for review.
The first visit I made to England was for the 2005 BirdFair. Having landed at Birmingham Airport, I drove a right-side steering car (the first time ever!) to Uppingham – becoming briefly bewildered on the Leicester ring road along the way – where I found my lodgings and kipped for the night. The next morning I rose, consumed a breakfast sufficient to satiate three farmhands, and strolled down the high street, where I was stopped dead in my tracks by the most exquisite butterfly I had up until that point in my life ever seen – a Peacock (Aglais io).
For his most recent Sunday Book Review, Mark shows his readers his Aurelian side.No, not the sad, Berlin-bound Aurelian as depicted in Nabokov’s short story of that name; the joyous Aurelian, as in the great tradition of butterfly enthusiasts.