It wasn’t three days since I’d listened to the brilliant Palaeocast episode about Isotelus rex that a copy of Riccardo Levi-Setti’s The Trilobite Book; A Visual Journey from The University of Chicago Press serendipitously showed up on my desk.
Back in July of 2014, The University of Chicago Press published Mark W. Person’s new English translation of Alexander von Humboldt’s famous collection of essays titled Ansichten der Natur (Views of Nature). This work, one of von Humboldt’s most influential – as well as reportedly his own personal favorite – has not seen a new English translation, […]
J.B.S. Haldane famously said that, judging from His works, God must have an inordinate fondness for beetles, and if The Book of Beetles: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature’s Gems is any indication, so does its author Patrice Bouchard.
Think about modern London. What types of animals do you associate with it? Rats, mice, and pigeons most likely. Pet dogs and cats, as well as their stray and feral relatives. Some ducks, geese and swans in the parks. Perhaps a few horses for the police and the royal family’s ceremonial purposes. But what about […]