Field Notes on Science and Nature is an enthusiasm-filled tour through the indispensable scientific tool that is the field journal
RETURNING from fieldwork in Tasmania, I was thrilled to find this book on my desk. Field Notes on Science and Nature celebrates the phenomenon that is the field journal, a fundamental tool for scientific research in the wilds.
This compendium comprises essays written by renowned scientists like mammalogists George Schaller and Jonathan Kingdon, and plant biologist James L. Reveal. Based on their own journals, and replete with illustrations lifted straight from their field notes, the essays not only provide an…
