In her recently published “Otter Country; An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World,” noted nature writer Miriam Darlington explores the world of the otter as it is found in England, Scotland, and Wales.
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The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife
In Dr. Raye’s recently published book “The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife; Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution” we are presented with a most remarkable catalouge of the species that were documented as having been living in these islands before modern population studies of them began.
The Last of Its Kind
I’m often moved to ranting whenever I’m presented with a reminder of one of the many extinctions our species has committed. A recent rant was inspired by a new book from Princeton University Press: Prof. Gísli Pálsson’s “The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction,” a gripping narrative history of the the extinction of the Great Auk.
The Codex of the Endangered Species Act; Volume II – The Next Fifty Years
Unlike many popular works that leave their readers begging for the sequel to make its appearance, Lowell Baier and his publisher Rowman & Littlefield have already brought out the next volume of his monumental history of the Endangered Species Act: “The Codex of the Endangered Species Act; Volume II – The Next Fifty Years.”