I have often in the past praised Heyday Books for the consistently high level of dedication they have shown to the natural history community in publishing particularly well-written and useful guidebooks to the plants, wildlife, and ecosystems of the U.S. state of California. Now, with the publication of “California Snakes and How to Find Them” I have yet another reason to do so.
As one who reads a greater than average number of books, I naturally find myself enjoying some more than others. And indeed, with regularity one is found to be more worthy of note than others I may have recently read. But the moments of greatest joy are had when I find myself halfway through a book and out of sheer reading-induced ecstasy demanding of myself “How, for Gaia’s sake, could I have not long since already known of – and more to the point been reading – this author’s books?”