Every so often, a new book comes along that when first seen causes me simply to stop and stare at it in awe with mouth agape. But never before has the mere picture of such a book caused me to do so – until today.
Fishes of the Salish Sea
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Ocean Outbreak
As one raised on the north Oregon coast in a family with deep and long-standing ties to the fishing industry, and still living within a relatively short drive from it, I am perhaps a bit more aware of marine affairs than the average person. So not surprisingly, when a copy of Professor C. Drew Harvell’s “Ocean Outbreak; Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease” arrived from University of California Press, you can believe that my interest was immediately piqued.
Here and There
In his still-growing “To the Last Smoke” series, Stephen J. Pyne has ranged across North America with volumes dedicated to the history, dynamics, and management of wild land fires from California to Florida, and from the Northern Rockies to the Southwest and places in between. For any interested in learning more about how fires behave and affect these various regions, it is difficult to imagine more authoritative works to which one can turn.
A Sustainable Future
One of the great joys of my work reviewing books on natural history subjects is that, while many times the books arriving for review are expected, occasionally one appears that I otherwise may have quite possibly missed. In some cases this may be just as well; however in others, such as with the recently arrived “A Sustainable Future; 12 Key Areas of Global Concern,” not having the opportunity to discover what their authors had to say would be most regrettable indeed.