March 29, 2021 The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham, winner of the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Award. He will join us by zoom!

Review

What Do We Do About John James Audubon? (also by Lanham) 

22 February 2021 - Terry Tempest Williams, your choice among her books including her classic Refuge and her newest collection of essays: Erosion: Essays of Undoing, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

"How do we find the strength
to not look away
from all that is breaking our hearts?" 

 

Unraveling, an essay by Terry the Tempest Williams

1 February 2021- Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, by Robert Richardson, 1986

 

December 28, 2020 The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams

 

 

 

 

 

Review in Washington Post

November 30, 2020 - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth

                NYT Review

Oct 26 2020 - The Falcon Thief: A True Tail of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt of the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer

 





Reviewed in NYT 

and

 Washington Post

Sept 29 2020 7:30pm by Zoom: Eager by Ben Goldfarb

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Review in Seattle Times

Zoom Aug 31, 2020 - Semiosis: Sentience Take Many Forms by Sue Burke.

Wiki Review 

June 29, 7:30pm (via Zoom) - Where the Crawdads Sing by Della Owens

 


A novel which has now been on the NY Times best seller list for over 70 weeks

Date for zoom meeting TBA - : The Book that Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, by Randall Fuller

Reviewed in: 

The Humanist

The King's English Bookshop

The Atlantic

New York Times

Companion book recommended by Ken:

The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse
(contains some fascinating insights into how Darwin and some of his contemporaries struggled with the conflict between their science and the religion that most of them were brought up with.)

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Monday, 27 January 2020: Horizon by Barry Lopez

Review by Hillary Rosner in NYT


Review by Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian

Nnovember 25, 2019: Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter and Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman.

... a 1904 novel ... set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, . . . (Wickipedia)

"...a riveting page turner about bonobos..." -

Michael Dirda in Washington Post