While Mark didn’t post a new Sunday Book Review this past weekend, he did receive a welcome message from his own agent regarding one of his own books: “Remarkable Birds.” Published by Thames & Hudson in 2016, it has since been translated from the original English into French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian, and is to date his “highest earning book to date.”
Three naturalists walk into the world’s largest tropical rainforest… No, it’s not the set-up for what could indeed be a pretty good natural science joke (with a punchline that includes the phrase “Good thing Spruce brought the tonic water!”); rather it’s the beginnings of a series of adventures that would yield some of the most significant scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century.