Taking the form of a large-format plate book, The Splendor of Birds presents a collection of some of the finest ornithological artwork and photography from the National Geographic archives. Spanning a 130 year range, beginning in 1888 and moving forward chronologically up to the present, the images included present a remarkably varied assortment of photographic styles and subject focus areas, as well as some truly choice illustrations, most notably by the great Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
You’ll not find The Well-read Naturalist participating in many virtual book tours, so when I do, you can be sure it’s for a book that I think is well worth it.
For the next fortnight, Princeton University Press is holding an online book tour for Richard Crossley’s forthcoming The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors. Each day the tour will move to a new brace of websites or blogs.
As July of this year gets into full swing, I expect to be planting my boots upon Peruvian soil for the first time in my life as a member of one of Gunnar Engblom and Kolibri Expeditions’ Manu tours.