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Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.

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October 27, 2013

Book Review: The Urban Bestiary

October 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Coyotes prowl our golf courses, cougars haunt our bike-trails, and owls skinny-dip in our bird-baths - a new book looks at the wild animals that fill in the spaces of human cities

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October 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
lyanda lynn haupt, nature, nature writing, October 2013, open letters weekly, the urban bestiary
August 21, 2013

Book Review: Trash Animals

August 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Rats, snakes, gulls, cockroaches, and half a dozen other notorious varmints - a delightful new anthology takes readers deep inside the world of the animals they love to hate

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August 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
andrew blechman trash animals, animals, August 2013, carolyn kraus, catherine puckett, charles bergman, christina robertson, cockroaches, kelsi nagy, lisa couturier, nature, nature writing, open letters weekly, phillip david johnson, pigeons
January 27, 2013

Book Review: Antarctica

January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Earth's frozen, forbidding continent is the subject of Gabrielle Walker's latest book

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January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
antarctica, gabrielle walker, January 2013, nature writing, travel writing
July 29, 2012

Book Review: The Black Rhinos of Namibia

July 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A gorgeously-written new book on the vanishing black rhinos of south-western Africa

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July 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
africa, July 2012, natural history, nature, nature writing, rhinos, rick bass, the black rhinos of namibia
June 21, 2012

Book Review: Life Everlasting

June 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A slim, fantastic new book on dead bodies, decay, road kill, and circling vultures! Happy summer!

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June 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
bernd heinrich, June 2012, life everlasting, natural history, nature, nature writing
May 21, 2012

Book Review: Of Moose and Men

May 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The closest thing to a genuine 'moose-whisperer' finally gets around to writing the Bible on the species!

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May 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
jerry haigh, May 2012, moose, moose and men, natural history, nature writing
March 17, 2012

Book Review: The Forest Unseen

March 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An enchantingly small focus creates a modern-day masterpiece of natural history

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david george haskell, March 2012, natural history, nature, nature writing, the forest unseen
March 05, 2012

Now in Paperback: The View From Lazy Point

March 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A paperback reprint of a modern nature classic

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March 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
carl safina, March 2012, natural history, nature writing, now in paperback, the view from lazy point
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