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The Magic of a Simple Guidebook

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Audubon’s Guidebook to New England soon helped me figure out the plant was bladder campion. Since that initial identification a dozen years ago, this flower has caught my eye everywhere in Maine, particularly on the edges of gravel roads in the north country. In short, one day it did not exist in my life, and forever after I have seen it far and wide.” Ken Allen says guidebooks aid the joy of discovery like almost no other piece of equipment. In Maine’s Kennebec Journal.

New Books: Steven Rinella's American Buffalo

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You won’t get around hunting as the hub of Steven Rinella’s new book about the saga of the American buffalo, but the author of The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine spins a pretty compelling tale according to reviewer Kristina Riggle. “‘My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed. That has to be on your mind that there’s this history of abuse and neglect and greed in our relationship with the animals.’ Rinella’s book is receiving critical praise, including a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and it also was an ‘IndieNext’ recommended pick by the independent booksellers group IndieBound.” In the Grand Rapids Press.

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon on Amazon.

Ben Kaplan interviews legendary photography Peter Beard, whose book The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise (Taschen, June 2008, 288 pages), originally published in 1965, was just re-released . Beard is, to say the least, candid about what he sees going on in modern day Africa: "The long process of evolution suddenly transformed into opportunistic (pretty dishonest) copy-cat scrabbles for doing the most good ... fund-raisers like 'MAN CAN CREATE!'... 'BUY A LION AN ACRE' ... 'SAVE RWANDA,' 'SAVE ALL THE CHILDREN' ... 'SAVING THE GAME,' etc..."

The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise
on Amazon | Peter Beard on Wikipedia