It only took me a few pages of reading in Leslie T. Sharpe’s “The Quarry Fox And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills,” recently published by The Overlook Press, to find myself wondering if I wasn’t in fact reading a long-lost essay by sage of the Catskills himself, John Burroughs.
When Dr. Boria Sax set out to discover the truth behind the famous ravens that inhabit – indeed, are kept at – the Tower of London, he almost immediately encountered divergent and conflicting histories pertaining to them.