Category Archives: Books

by Gaynor Chapman  David Newland et.al., Princeton Univerity Press, £17.95. Paperback, 224pp. Sensibly, the authors of this field guide, produced in association with Butterfly Conservation, have adopted geographical rather than political boundaries in their book, including the Republic of Ireland. … Continue reading →

A Book Review by Mark Thomas Like many, I first met Richard Crossley at Cape May, a location which he has become synonymous with since he turned his regular annual vacations from Leeds into a full-blown emigration to New Jerseys … Continue reading →

Shifting Sands Blakeney Point and the Environmental Imagination by Andy Stoddart review by Andy Roadhouse Shifting Sands a very well put together book not only about the history of Blakeney Point, but also of how the area has been used … Continue reading →

The World’s Rarest Birds by  Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash and Robert Still, (2013) Princeton University Press ISBN 978-0-691-15596-8 Reviewed by Keith Clarkson, May 2013 on behalf of Birding Frontiers This remarkable book vividly depicts the 590 most threatened birds on … Continue reading →

The Birds of the Island of  Helgoland A suggestion from me of something different to ‘ask for’ this Christmas. Certainly one of the coolest books I have seen this autumn: Helgoland. It is the mother of all bird observatories. A remarkable history includes the … Continue reading →