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Favourite NN volumes

John Beal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:11:06 GMT

S W Mott's recent mention of an NN favourite, Gordon Manley's Climate and the British Scene (15/6/10 under the Bird Migration topic) prompts me to revive the subject of favourites first taken up in the old forum during the summer of 2008.

One of my favourites is Brian Moss' masterly account of the intricate interplay of fauna and flora within the ecological and biological systems in "The Broads". A complex subject explained well.

Another, because it was my very first NN, is Desmond Nethersole-Thompson's "The Greenshank". It was a revelation to me as a schoolboy in the early 1950s to find a whole book devoted to just a single species of bird! And not just any bird but the mysterious one I had just succeeded in identifying on my father's farm.

Nicholson's "Birds and Men" received as a school prize in 1951 is still a treasured possession. This was complemented in the 70's by Murton's "Man and Birds". After all these years, I am reading Gilmour and Walters "Wild Flowers" and find it still flows very well, as do many of the early volumes, not least "World of Spiders" and "A Country Parish".

I am inclined to agree with S M W about "Grouse" but did not bother to get "Wildfowl".

Kind regards,

John B

Bird Migration, Volume 113

alane — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:03:25 GMT

Came in from the greenhouse to find this sitting in the porch this afternoon! A quick look through shows no signs of the print problems I've found with the previous two volumes and the illustrations seem fine.

For some unknown reason I was drawn to reading the caption to Fig 249 on page 456. It has left me wondering if the taxonomists have been fiddling with the tit family, I thought it was [i]Parus caeruleus[/i]. On the opposite page the Robin genus should be [i]Erithacus[/i].

This is a volume I have really been looking forward to and will place it near the top of my read me pile - well one of the many read me piles!

Climate & Weather - Volume 115

SGES — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:39:12 GMT

Amazon are now showing the cover for Climate & Weather by John Kington. Should be a good book to end 2010 on a high! Likely to be released on 2 September 2010...

Badger

JoshParker2 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:36:28 GMT

Are we enjoying this? I didn't know much about these animals, and I'm half way through and really finding it very informative and well written. I hope everyone else is also. I think the cover is great as well.

Books and Naturalists, Volume 112

John Riutta — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:00:30 GMT

As my copy of [i]Books and Naturalists[/i] must make its way not only across the Atlantic Ocean but across North America as well in order to reach me, I'm curious to know if anyone closer to the source has received a copy of his or her own yet? First impressions?

Cheers,
John

N/N Dartmoor no:111 now out!

Lee3764 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:10:14 GMT

I received my eagerly awaited hardback copy today from NHBS booksellers from Totnes in Devon & it looks very nice indeed! A lovely photo of a Marsh Fritillary Butterfly on page 170 (plate 130). Has anyone else received their copy yet?? Lee Slaughter (Cornwall).

PS...I think I previously posted this in the wrong part of the forum under General Discussions instead of Latest Titles!

The Lake District (53)

Stephen — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:37:41 GMT

I have a copy of this with red rather than green boards - Its an ex library copy so does anybody else now of red boarded Lake Districts or is this likely to have been `re-boarded' as a repair by the Library service??

Art of New Naturalists

thardy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:49:29 GMT

Does anyone know if the Monograph covers will be included in Art of New Naturalists, or if it is just the main series?