nature book club
Get together, expand your knowledge of the natural world, meet other folks, and have a good time!
Nature Book Club meets monthly, is free, and open to all.
Nature Book Club meets monthly, is free, and open to all.
Nature Book Club is a great way to keep up on your nature learning, meet new people, read new books, and participate in discussion about the ways nature writing shapes our experiences and relationship to the natural world.
New folks are always welcome to join!
Nature Book Club meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Online, contact us for the meeting link
New folks are always welcome to join!
Nature Book Club meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Online, contact us for the meeting link
Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 24, 6:00-7:30pm.
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins
by Jonathan Balcomb Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes. Although there are more than thirty thousand species of fish―more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined―we rarely consider how individual fishes think, feel, and behave. Balcombe upends our assumptions about fishes, portraying them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed feeding machines but as sentient, aware, social, and even Machiavellian - in other words, much like us. |
Upcoming selections:
October: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
November: Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
December: The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick
January: American Snakes by Sean Graham
February: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
March: Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert by Melvin Adams
April: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcomb
May: The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Gooley
October: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
November: Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
December: The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick
January: American Snakes by Sean Graham
February: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
March: Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert by Melvin Adams
April: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcomb
May: The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Gooley
Also check out our Tracking Club!