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I knew right away that The Peregrine , J. A. Baker’s slim 1967 book about peregrine hawks, would be unlike any naturalist’s book I’d...

I’ve been cordially invited to join The Savage Detectives reading challenge .  I accepted of course, albeit with slight reluctance...

Reading literature in translation I sometimes discover an element from the work’s culture of origin not immediately apparent from th...

“The Café of Mirrors seemed to be a place created by man’s wisdom and set within the confines of a world doomed to sadness.” [phot...

Lisbon “ A few books I’ve just read sail by like schooners on the way to the Bermuda Triangle, where they will disappear without a t...