In his most recent book "The Birds That Audubon Missed," Kenn Kaufman examines the lives and activities of the colourful, larger than life, often eccentric individuals whose names are now famous ...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/05/the-birds-that-audubon-missed/
For those seeking to understand the natural history of the northern Ohio area, particularly Lake Erie's western basin, Louis W. Campbell's writings can open up a treasure trove of information abo...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/05/the-marshes-of-southwestern-lake-erie/
While in our present time pigs are primarily only found penned on a farm or less commonly roaming deep in the wilds, in the European Middle Ages they occupied a significantly wider range of space...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/04/the-medieval-pig/
When the news reached me that Ray Reedman had written another book on the subject of the history of bird names, also, like his previous "Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks; The How and Why of Bird N...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/04/the-vanishing-mew-gull/
"It has been my misfortune never to have had any neighbours whose studies have led them towards the pursuit of natural knowledge; so that, for want of a companion to quicken my industry and sharp...
For those whose occupation - or avocation - involves communicating complex information to an audience, be that audience collegial or non-specialist, the ability to create and employ charts, diagr...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/03/the-visual-elements-design/
With a format, size, and style of content that is very reminiscent of the original Golden Guides and the Observer's Books series, the new Princeton University Press Little Books of Nature series ...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/03/little-books-of-nature/
In his new book "Hearsay Is Not Excluded; A History of Natural History," Prof. Michael R. Dove takes up the histories of four representative natural historians from the previous four centuries - ...
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2024/02/hearsay-is-not-excluded/
In continuation of her exploration into effective ways to bridge our society's present chasm between proponents of science and skeptics of it, Prof. Emma Frances Bloomfield's new book "Science v....
With her superb mix of erudition and wit, Dr. Hana Videen's first book "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" captured both the minds and hearts of those who read it. Now, in her second book, ...