June 22, 2015 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Review in N Y Review of Books 



Review in New Yorker Magazine

Review in N Y Times


(What's with all this emphasis on NY?)

Monday, 18 May 2015, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Review in NY Times

Monday, 23 March 2015 Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack

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Review in NY Review of Books

Feb 2, 2015 - The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest By Elizabeth Royte

NYT Review

November 10, 2014 - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Wikipedia Review

New York Times

The Guardian

September 29, 2014 - The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David S. Wilcove

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird, by Bruce Barcott

Reviewed in  New York Times

Monday, 19 May 2014 to discuss Two Books: A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edwin Way Teale and Seasons at Eagle Pond by Donald Hall

March 31, 2014 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Reviewed in The Guardian by Natasha Walter

Jan 27, 2014 - The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle,Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul

Reviewed in Seattle Times

Author's website

Dec 9, 2013: Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825–1875 by Barbara Novak

about the author

other books by Novak

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September 23, 2013: My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

Read it Online at SierraClub.org