This Spring, thanks to a gift from The Gould Family Foundation Foundation that not only supported the creation of the volume but that will also keep it in print in the series, “Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment” will join the works of Muir, Leopold, the Bartrams, and all the other great works contained in the series.
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.
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. […]
When I was a boy, a number of legal decisions were handed down by a federal judge curtailing the commercial fishing trade on the Columbia River from which my family had made a living since my grandfather first came to the United States from Finland (then Russia) at the age of twelve. Almost immediately following […]