John E. Riutta
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Regardless of where your travels might take you in this world, it’s always a good idea to read-up on your destination before you go. For travelling naturalists and wildlife photographers, such preliminary study is not just a good idea, its of paramount importance.
Continue Reading →Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been a tea drinker. My maternal grandmother and my Aunt Rose, in a good-natured but earnest struggle to ensure that my young tastes would grow to embrace their beverage of choice as opposed to my father’s family’s coffee-drinking traditions, put water-thinned tea in my bottle as a [...]
Continue Reading →Prior to reading Richard Fortey’s Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, I honestly cannot recall audibly exclaiming “Bravo!” upon completing a reading of any book.
Continue Reading →The search for the solution to what Sir John Herschel famously called the “mystery of mysteries” – how new species come to exist – has brought a myriad of remarkable creatures to the attention of science.
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