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.
City of Ravens
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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England
Such a wide-angle overview of nature is only possible for a limited geographic area if the book in which it is contained is to be sufficiently compact to fit into a jacket pocket or field bag; which is why the Kaufmans limited the scope of this field guide to the nature of just New England.
The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds
Long before there were digital cameras in every mobile phone – or for that matter long before there were digital cameras or mobile phones – many bird watchers considered a pencil suitable for drawing and a small sketch pad essential elements of their field kit.
The Serious Point Lost in the Mantel Kerfuffle
By now you’ve no doubt become aware of the teapot-filling tempest that was inspired by a few very well-spoken lines of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant lecture delivered as the first of the London Review of Books Winter Lecture series at the British Museum. However what is being obscured by all the dust kicked into the air […]