Although now strongly identified with the southwestern U.S. deserts where the few remaining “wild” individuals can still be seen flying more-or-less free, the California Condor was once found as far north as British Columbia.
Thanks to Oregon State University Press’ Northwest Reprints series which publishes classic works of both fiction and nonfiction from the past of the Pacific Northwest, a new edition of this timeless work has been published as part of the press’ 2013 list.
Of all the natural history disciplines, many aspiring naturalists find geology to be one of the toughest nuts – or perhaps more appropriately, rocks – to crack. Fortunately for those aspiring to learn the subject in Oregon the sixth edition of Oregon Geology by Elizabeth L. Orr and William N. Orr has recently been published.
Rachel Poliquin‘s The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing isn’t a book that fits neatly into any single category. Given its author’s interest and expertise in natural history museology and collecting, it would at first seem to fall into the history of natural history. However it also contains significant veins of art and cultural criticism, […]