Jun 14, 2019
Nature in Fiction: An interview with Glendy Vanderah
Glendy Vanderah's Where the Forest Meets the Stars is an Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller, will be...
Jan 25, 2019
A Giant Announcement!
My new book, The Giant Otter: Giants of the Amazon, is available for preorder! I have been involved with giant otters, in one way or...
May 28, 2018
Our Place: A Review
I don’t know whether to applaud Mark Cocker or kick him in the shins. Maybe both. I’ve just finished reading his Our Place: Can We Save...
Oct 29, 2017
In Search of Grace: A Review
In Search of Grace is a contemplative, generous, and strangely reassuring read. It is Reason’s offering towards a new order of things. I am
Sep 10, 2017
Ocean Country: A Review
There is a skill to writing a really good book review. A couple of years ago I thought I would give it a try, and I started a Top Nature...
May 26, 2017
#Fieldwork Fail
I have a lot of respect for scientists. But even scientists make mistakes, or look foolish, sometimes. And who doesn’t love a story in...
Mar 23, 2017
A Giant Work in Progress
I am writing a book. Or rather, I’m about to start writing a book. I actually have a deadline for it, because it’s under contract. My...
Dec 18, 2016
Sea Fever
It was my boat-loving, ocean-going father who first told me about John Masefield's poem. My father is not much into poetry but I can see...
