After completing my reading of Andrea Wulf‘s award-winning – and justly so – The Invention of Nature; Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, I not surprisingly found myself wanting to take up some of the works of von Humboldt himself. Unfortunately, as my French is very rusty from decades of neglect and my German all but non-existent […]
As those who follow The Well-read Naturalist’s Twitter or Instagram feeds will likely already know, I make a regular habit of reading from the collected essays in Melissa Harrison’s Seasons quartet of anthologies from Elliott & Thompson. However what you may not know is just how regular this habit is, or why I do it. […]
For a little over two years now I have posted essays, reviews, musings, idle thoughts, and a host of other intellectual creations here on Born Again Bird Watcher. From this activity I have met some wonderfully friendly, thoughtful people and made more than a few professional connections. However following prolonged reflection upon a few conversations […]