LANDSCAPE WITH REPTILE: RATTLESNAKE IN AN URBAN WORLD, BY THOMAS PALMER

Borrowing from a coworker. Tells the tale of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, in New England. They don’t fare particuarly well there, but I’m always interested in tales of human-reptile interaction, and I’m told this is a fairly detailed history.

Done…

Great book. The prose is also a little flowery at times, and he occasionally gets a little too caught up in his tangents into local history (a topic he clearly adores), but for the most part that history is quite interesting and usually relevant to his subject. Overall it’s a great history of rattlesnakes in colonial America. If/when I return to New England, I need to go looking for these guys…