Category: Environment/Nature/Ag

November 20, 2011

Tinkers by Paul Harding ** (of 4)

An old man lies in his bed surrounded by family and his memories as his life winds down like the clocks he used to fix. ...

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September 30, 2011

The Tiger: A true story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vailiant *** (of 4)

One of those intriguing books about an animal I knew surprisingly little of and a part of the world, eastern Siberia, about which I was...

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May 1, 2011

Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles ** (of 4)

It had great promise. An A to Z series of essays on the most numerous, weighty, and least talked about organisms on earth chronicled by...

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July 14, 2010

Pompeii by Robert Harris ** (of 4)

About the three days before Mount Vesuvius blew its top and decimated the city of Pompeii as seen through the eyes of a conscientious aquarius...

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July 14, 2010

Double Whammy by Carl Hiassen *** (of 4)

Vintage Hiassen. The murderers and bad guys are Florida tele-evangelists and unscrupulous land developers, assisted by rednecks with brains the size of ‘possums. The good...

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June 21, 2010

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean **** (of 4)

Norman Maclean is like Roger Angell: an old school Master of wordsmithing. His command of English and of writing is simply superior. Maclean’s first great...

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June 21, 2010