Book Review: “Vesper Flights”

I have been leisurely savoring a diet of essays from British author, Helen Macdonald’s new book, Vesper Flights since I received it for my birthday earlier this month. For many of us interested in the outdoors, there was some special, relatively wild, area we could...

Book Review: “Owls of the Eastern Ice”

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2020) Blakiston’s fish owls are huge, the “size of a fire hydrant” according to researcher Jon Slaght. Living in Russia’s Far East, Siberian...