A New Take on North America’s Most Famous Birder In Kenn Kaufman’s introduction to his 2024 book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, he describes the expedition to Labrador (or what was called Labrador at the time, but is now the easternmost part of Quebec) that John James Audubon took in 1833 and his subsequent discovery [...]
Cosy Reading for Cooler Nights In the introduction to his highly acclaimed book, An Immense World, the science writer Ed Yong creates an imaginary scenario with a room full of animals: an elephant, a mouse, a robin, an owl, a bat, a rattlesnake, a spider, a mosquito, a bumblebee, and a human. The chaos that [...]
By Jessica Sims The Book: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (2020) by Merlin Sheldrake, 368 pages Mushrooms are having a moment. Workshops, books, and classes on wild mushroom foraging abound, while fantastic fungi can be found populating books and TV shows. But these incredible organisms, albeit [...]
