“…a thoughtful and well-informed look at nature conservation in the UK and every few pages I was thinking ‘That’s a very good point’ or ‘That’s an interesting way of putting it – and true too!’ or ‘I’d never thought of it that way’.” So begins Mark in his assessment of Laurence Rose’s new book “Framing Nature; Conservation and Culture,” the subject of his most recent Sunday Book Review.
On the last Saturday of June 2019, I found my way to L.L. Stub Stewart State Park off Oregon Highway 47 to meet up with some very nice folks from the Rose City Astronomers and a small group of also very nice beginning amateur astronomers – among the latter of whom I count myself. For […]
For his book review this week Mark has picked Laurence Rose’s soon-to-be-published “The Long Spring; Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe” from Bloomsbury Publishing.
Recording Rose’s adventures arising from his desire to explore “Europe’s remarkable heritage of exceptional places and the wildlife, traditions and people associated with them” he followed the arrival of Spring across the continent from it’s pre-arrival February beginnings in the north of Africa to its eventual appearance in the arctic.