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Nicholas Drayson discusses his second novel, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa.
Would you describe yourself as a birder?
I'd describe myself as more of a naturalist&#;I like nature as a whole and in all its parts. I get just as much pleasure in watching a wasp hunting for spiders, a family of baboons, or the colors of the New England fall as I do in seeing a bird that I have never encountered before. The great thing about birds, though, is that they are easy to see and study. There are lots of them, they can be found nearly everywhere, most of them fly around happily in the daylight, and they make such great noises.
What made you decide to write this book?
Ten years ago I finished my Ph.D. and married the world's most beautiful Antarctic lexicographer, Bernadette Hince. Bernadette had just accepted a job as publications editor in an international agroforestry research center in Kenya, and we moved fr
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'Love and the Platypus' bygd Nicolas Drayson
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by Rebecca Starford•
June , no.
Love and the Playtypus by Nicolas Drayson
Scribe, $ pb, pp
Fiction
by Rebecca Starford•
June , no.
The naturalist has been something of a recurring figure in recent Australian historical fiction: there is Ingrid in Jessica White’s A Curious Intimacy (), Lindsay Simpson’s Lady Jane in The Curer of Souls (), and now the real-life William Caldwell, from Nicolas Drayson’s Love and the Platypus. The novel opens in with the young British naturalist arriving in Queensland. In search of the elusive platypus egg, he crosses overland to the Burnett River, where he sets up camp and begins his investigation.
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Rebecca Starford is the co-founder and publishing-director of Kill Your Darling • PERSONAL: Born , in England; immigrated to Australia, Education: University of New South Wales, B.S., M.S., Ph.D. ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, W. W. Norton & Co., Fifth Ave., New York, NY CAREER: Writer, naturalist, and house painter. Former curator at Australian National Museum, Canberra, Australia. Wildlife: Australia's Flora and Fauna Gently Observed, illustrated by Bruce Goold, Collins (Sydney, Australia), Confessing a Murder, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), Columnist for Good Weekend and Australian Women's Weekly. Contributor to periodicals, including Australian Geographic. SIDELIGHTS: Nicholas Drayson's first book is a naturalist's observation of his adopted home of Australia. Drayson was living in Kenya in and when he wrote his second, a novel titled Confessing a Murder, which Booklist's Michael Spinella commented "juxtaposes the dark nature of humanity with the exciting discoveries made about nature an Drayson, Nicholas
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