There aren’t many days that a new episode of Joanne Rideout’s The Ship Report podcast is published that I don’t include listening to it in the activities that begin my day. Not only does it remind me of the town in which I was raised, it often contains interesting information about the natural history of the lower Columbia River.
The number of books encompassed by the many natural history series published by Reaktion Books and distributed by University of Chicago Press is truly impressive. From Animal and Botanical through Kosmos and Earth, scores upon scores of volumes (Animal alone, by my count, presently contains ninety-nine books) take up a wide range of topics that will keep an interested naturalist reading for years.