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Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Halcyon Journey: Searching for Kingfishers

June 30, 2022June 28, 2022 by John Yunker

Kingfishers are birds more often heard than seen. Walk next to Bear Creek here in the Rogue Valley and you will probably hear them, though seeing them is not so …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press

Book Review: The Dolphin House by Audrey Schulman

June 1, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Audrey Schulman’s The Dolphin House, inspired by a true story about dolphin research in St. Thomas in the 1960s, is a beautiful, thought-provoking read, at times as heartbreaking as it …

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Categories Book Reviews, Europa Editions, Fiction

Book Review: THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass

May 28, 2022 by Midge Raymond

While Jessie Greengrass’s remarkable novel The High House is set primarily in a grim future, this is not purely dystopian fiction—in fact, it feels far more contemporary, like a novel …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Environment by Rolf Halden

February 18, 2022 by Lillie Gardner

If you were expecting a book called “Environment” to include an inspiring exploration of how trees communicate, poetic scenes of dolphins swimming gracefully through a blue ocean or an examination …

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Categories Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Sustainability

Life Between the Tides, by Adam Nicolson

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2022 (Published in the UK as The Sea is Not Made of Water) Life Between the Tides is my kind of book. British author, Adam …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, History, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability

Book Review: Julian Sancton’s MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Julian Sancton’s Madhouse at the End of the Earth tells the riveting, page-turning story of the Belgica’s multinational expedition to Antarctica, led by Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache. This may be not be …

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Categories Book Reviews, Crown, Nonfiction, Penguin Random House

Book Review: Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring

May 28, 2025December 6, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Living in Southern Oregon, not far north of where Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring is set, I’ve grown used to passing trucks that are overloaded with timber, and mountainsides bare from clear-cuts. Knowing …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Trees

Book Review: A Most Remarkable Creature

December 28, 2023October 1, 2021 by John Yunker

In A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey Jonathan Meiburg has crafted an epic ode to the caracara, a long-overlooked …

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Categories Alfred A. Knopf, Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, What we're reading

How to Be Animal: Lessons in evolution for the human animal

September 11, 2021September 10, 2021 by John Yunker

Perhaps it is human nature to rank things. We rank cities and states and countries. We have the best restaurants and best movies; we even have best friends. And when …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Pets, Sustainability, What we're reading

2021 Siskiyou Prize submissions are open!

September 3, 2021September 1, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Submissions are now open for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. This year’s award, sponsored by Ashland Creek Press and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, will be …

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