“My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will …
Read the review: Book Review: The Vegan Revolution…With Zombies by David Agranoff
People of a certain age (myself included) remember growing up outside. Our families opened the doors, shooed us out, and shut them again, leaving us free to wander through our …
Read the review: Book Review: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature by Donna M. Jackson is particularly intriguing for me as a resident of Ashland, Oregon—which is home to the National …
I began reading this short story collection during a stay at a tiny cabin on Minnesota’s Gull Lake and couldn’t have asked for a more perfect setting to enjoy Rebecca …
As James McClintock points out in his enlightening book, Antarctica is often referred to as “the poster child” for global warming, a bellwether of climate change, the place where we …
Read the review: Book Review: Lost Antarctica by James McClintock
Read this in the heat of August — languorous, sweltering, submerged. It begins, “Soon it would be too hot.” J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World is a classic in the growing …
Read the review: Book Review: The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Eliot Schrefer’s Threatened reads like a thematic sequel to his 2012 National Book Award finalist Endangered. Both books tell the story of a teenager who leaves human society in Africa for …
What happens when a predator becomes prey? Today, the animals we have long viewed as predators – lions and tigers, bears and sharks – are in some cases on the verge of extinction. And, thanks to …
Read the review: Pity the predators. A review of Beasts by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The Awareness (March 2014) is told in the shifting point of view of a wild bear, a circus elephant, a factory farmed pig and a rescued pet dog — all …
Read the review: Book Review: The Awareness by Gene Stone and Jon Doyle
Writing Wild Forming a Creative Partnership With Nature By Tina Welling New World Library, 2014 My favorite quote from Writing Wild is one Tina Welling borrows from Jesus, of …
Wayne Pacelle’s The Bond is much more than its gentle title suggests. Rather than present a quaint book about the human-animal bond, Pacelle (president and CEO of the Humane Society of …