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> Tag: natural history
A yellow skeleton of (I think) a mastodon rotated so it's tusk-up, feet facing the left of the page, superimposed on a red background

‘What happened to the frogs? We don’t hear them calling anymore.’

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

March 6, 2022 by dsbs42 4 Comments

This book is equal parts heartbreaking, infuriating, fascinating, and beautiful. It hits my sweet spot exactly between natural history, science, environmentalism, and travel writing (freaking Kolbert got to go to, off the top of my head, Australia, Germany, France, Peru, Panama, Iceland, Scotland, and Italy for this book, and I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting some). This genre is my catnip, and if I could trade lives with any author on the planet, well, it would probably be Michael Palin, actually, but Elizabeth Kolbert and Mary […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Elizabeth Kolbert, natural history

dsbs42's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: History · Tags: Elizabeth Kolbert, natural history ·
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Lady Trent takes another trip

The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan

February 5, 2021 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

The second book in The Memoirs of Lady Trent series, while The Tropic of Serpents didn’t quite reach the same giddy heights of adoration as A Natural History of Dragons had, that was mostly down to me having had no expectations with the first, and stratospheric ones with the second. The now widowed Isabella Trent is mother to a young son, but still possessing a naturalist’s thirst for more knowledge about dragons. Flying in the face of what polite Scirling society thinks she ought to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history

TheShitWizard's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history ·
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Fantastic start to what I’m sure will become my new obsession

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

October 20, 2020 by TheShitWizard 1 Comment

An absolute delight from start to finish, as a huge fan of both the diaries of Victorian explorers and fantasy, A Natural History of Dragons felt perfectly tailored for me and I adored it so much I’ve already gone ahead and bought a bunch more of the series. Lady Trent has always been fascinated by dragons, but in her day a lady’s place is most definitely meant to be sitting prettily in a drawing room, making sure to not tax her thoughts with anything more […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, alt-history, exploration, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, alt-history, exploration, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history ·
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Cry Wolf

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

September 27, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

My cousin recommended this book to me and, oh man, am I glad she did. I swear, I don’t think I have ever cried so hard reading a non-fiction book before. This is an examination and history of the reintroduction of wolves into the Yellowstone Valley. It’s a very broad look at the entirety of the re-introduction project  started in 1995 following through until around 2014 or so, as well as getting really deep into the case studies of the various wolf packs, focusing predominantly […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American Wolf, cbr11bingo, nate blakeslee, natural history, non fiction

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:32 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American Wolf, cbr11bingo, nate blakeslee, natural history, non fiction ·
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I judged this book by its cover, and that was my mistake

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen

July 7, 2019 by KimMiE" 3 Comments

CBR11bingo: The Collection Look at that awesome cover! It has a rhino on it, for heaven’s sake, which was enough for me to pick it up and look closer. I had been browsing books in the Quadrant Book Mart, one of my favorite little spots in Easton, PA, where I was visiting with my family two Christmases ago, when I spotted that intriguing image. Something about used book stores combined with travel makes me want to test airline luggage weight limits by stocking up on […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #thecollection, cbr11bingo, David Quammen, KimMiE", natural history, nature, Outside Magazine

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #thecollection, cbr11bingo, David Quammen, KimMiE", natural history, nature, Outside Magazine ·
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