A reread of The Tapir's Morning Bath, after ten years on the shelf and numerous loans to others, has not disappointed me. A field study of Barro Colorado Island, a Smithsonian Research Institute Center in Panama, provides a look at not only...
A nice affirmation of my view that less is more. After a year of not venturing outside of a radius of 100 miles from home, the author finds much that is overlooked when he stops long enough to take a close look. Also a good close up look at...
An illuminating read. Not a page turner, but a book to read slowly and ponder the amazing differences between my life and the lives of those who lived only a scant one or two hundred years ago. I will never again flip on a switch cavalierly...
This book was a gift in more than one way. I was gradually taken into a space where I had not ventured for a time--a lacuna. I have not read fiction for a while; I have only briefly flirted with Mexican culture; my historical knowledge of t...
A reread of The Tapir's Morning Bath, after ten years on the shelf and numerous loans to others, has not disappointed me. A field study of Barro Colorado Island, a Smithsonian Research Institute Center in Panama, provides a look at not only...
A nice affirmation of my view that less is more. After a year of not venturing outside of a radius of 100 miles from home, the author finds much that is overlooked when he stops long enough to take a close look. Also a good close up look at...
An illuminating read. Not a page turner, but a book to read slowly and ponder the amazing differences between my life and the lives of those who lived only a scant one or two hundred years ago. I will never again flip on a switch cavalierly...
