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Part of #polymathreadingchallenge I chose this for Marine Biology, but endangered animals may be a better fit. The book sits between science and poetry (the chapter on the albatross is a great example) with each chapter dealing with a different seabird (aprt from the last which consolidates the endangered nature of thse beautiful complex birds). I don't think I'll ever look at a gull the same way again

Part of #Polymathreadingchallenge reading for Marine Biology

It interesting reading a 100+ year old popular science book. I chose this one for #polymathreadingchallange Fungi, but it's a lot more about the microbial theory of disease & the work of Pasteur,Jenner & Lister. A lot of Microbes are identified as parasitical fungi, which is necessarily the case. However this was written when microbial theory was a new modern hypothesis. A fair few folk could do with reading this especially about "raw" milk

A comfortable read, after all who doesn't love a library

For the #polymathreadingchallenge I picked up this from my library for the category Fungi. It might be a loose interpretation but the chapter Parasitic fungi should be a good fit

I've mostly read the moomins in esperanto, so the differences will be interesting to see

A book that might be about a serial killer or about food or most likely misogyny in Japanese society.