Book review: Owls of the Eastern Ice, by Jonathan C. Slaght Jonathan C. Slaght is a wildlife conservationist dedicated to preserving and documenting the Blakiston fish owl, a rare species found primarily in Siberia. In Owls of the Eastern Ice, he documents his time in the Russian Far East, and the unique challenges of trying to research... Continue Reading →
Terry Tempest Williams on Many Forms of Erosion and Undoing
Book review: Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams (Amazon / Book Depository) If the world is torn to pieces, I want to see what story I can find in fragmentation. Renowned nature writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams' latest comprises essays written between 2012 and 2019, "a seven-year cycle exploring the idea of erosion; the erosion... Continue Reading →
The Man-Made Disaster of “The Deadliest Animal in History”
Book review: No Beast So Fierce, by Dane Huckelbridge (Amazon / Book Depository) Around 1900 in India and Nepal, a Royal Bengal tiger had gone "cannibal". That's the term author John Vaillant attributes to Russians in The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, used for describing when a tiger preys on humans as its primary... Continue Reading →
Tales from Yellowstone: Triumphs and Struggles of Wolf Reintroduction
Book review: American Wolf, by Nate Blakeslee (Amazon / Book Depository) Maybe you've seen this video that made the social media rounds awhile back, about the effects wolf reintroduction has had on Yellowstone National Park: It's a beautiful, almost heartwarming story of humans helping nature to right itself (after humans messed it up in the first... Continue Reading →
Secrets and Stories from the American Museum of Natural History
My photo of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I don't know why I took the picture from that angle with the tree barging in. It looks spooky. Book review: Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History, by Douglas Preston (Amazon / Book Depository) This magnificent... Continue Reading →