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

Sept 23, 2019 - Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans deWaal

Reviewed bu Adam Rutherford in The Guardian

July 1, 2019 - Nature Cure by Richard Mabey

 

Reviewed by Jonathan Bate in The Guardian 

Who is Richard Mabey?

. . .  one of England's greatest nature writers. He is author of some thirty books including Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards -- goodreads.com

Author's website -

June 3, 2019 - The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior by Stefano Mancuso

 

Review by Mark Ciotola

April 1, 2019 - The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (a Stephen suggestion).

 

Audio review and reading of 1st chapter

Audubon article about smuggling of song birds

Monday, 28 January 2019: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White.

Wikipedia Commentary

Also read the 1996 article by our own Cecily Nabors, A Cuckoo Sings in Selborne,  in the Washington Post.

This book was first published in 1789 and has never been out of print.

Gilbert White is said by some to be the first ecologist and environmentalist.

Monday, 26 November 2018: The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser.

Review on NPR.org

Amazon's "Look Inside"

Preview in Google Books

Monday, 24 September 2018: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us by Richard Prum.

Reviewed in New Scientist

Monday, 25 June 2018 - NOTES FROM THE SHORE by Jennifer Ackerman.

Reviewed at Smithsonian.com

Monday 21 May 2018 - Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren

Review in New York Botanical Garden's Science Talk

Review in New York Times

March 19, 2018 - The Winter Beach by Charlton Ogburn,

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