Image: The Global Pigeon, by Colin Jerolmack via University of Chicago Press (source) Last week I attended the book talk for Colin Jerolmack’s The Global Piegon. Jerolmack’s book is not a natural history of the pigeon, per se. Rather it uses the pigeon as a way of sampling the human population for an ethnographic study, […]
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The children’s nature book, Nature in the Neighborhood, by Gordon Morrison, was the inspiration for a map of selected natural resources in my neighborhood. Kelly Brenner of Metropolitan Field Guide asked for “other must-have nature children’s books”. Here are 10 recommendations. 1. Big Night for Salamanders, by Sarah Marwil Lamstein, with illustrations by Carol Benioff […]
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Image: Clay, by Melissa Harrison, UK cover photo via Bloomsbury (source) One reason I enjoy my subscription to “Harper’s Magazine” is the New Books review section. This month, Jane Smiley reviewed three books which she described as extending the tradition of Don Quixote by writing about “geography: what is out there, who lives there, how […]
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