Maddalena Bearzi, marine biologist, behavioral ecologist, and wonderful writer about animals, has an op-ed out in the LA Times about Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, the name given to her by the Lummi nation, otherwise known as Lolita the imprisoned orca: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-05/orcas-whale-capture-lolita-miami-florida-tokitae

She was taken from a pod in the PNW 50 years ago and lives alone in a tank.

Bearzi studies dolphins in the wild and has directly observed this animal in captivity, and shares her knowledge and understanding with us so we may better empathize with and find understanding of non-human animals.

She's also the author of Stranded, which helps folks do the same for less charismatic, backyard beasties! https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/stranded/

#marinemammals #orca #lolita #bearzi #ecology #losangeles #stranded #animalrights #blackfish #ocean #nonhuman #heydaybooks

Oh my goodness, Jaime Herndon got right to the heart of what Rosanna Xia is trying to do in #CaliforniaAgainsttheSea "It’s a beautifully written, highly relevant book about not just our relationship with and how we think about the natural world, but also how we relate to each other."

THANK YOU for being such a good reader, dear reviewer!
https://bookriot.com/summer-2023-science-books/ #sciencebooks #sealevelrise #california #environment #nature #naturewriting #bookreview #bestsciencebooks #heydaybooks

Thrilled to see that @alden's book Deep Oakland is a SF Chronicle best seller!

It's also the only book from an independent publisher on the list this week.

Congrats Andrew!

#Heyday #HeydayBooks #DeepOakland #BestSeller #sfba #SFChronical #LocalPublisher #independentpublisher #independentpublishing #geology #history @bookstodon

Heyday's wonderful writer Charles Hood is up from So Cal for one night only! Tonight at the San Ramon library at 6:30 pm, discussing, "Does Nature Exist?"

https://ccclib.bibliocommons.com/events/6467a10478c3da4200b102a7

Charles is hilarious, is a poet, photographer, and naturalist, and has traveled wisely to look at all the birds and mammals he can. He's written several field guides, essays, and books of poems, and this fall we'll publish his photo heavy book on nature at night here in the West called NOCTURNALIA, coauthored with bat expert José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca!

Editing his book of essays A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat was a total highlight of my early days at Heyday.

#bats #SanRamon #books #naturewriting #whatisnature #nocturnalia #CharlesHood #HeydayBooks #naturephotography #nightphotography #thedarkside

@bookstodon

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. By S. Olson (Karuk)

More than seventy delectable recipes that bring California’s Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today.

25% off preorder sale with the discount code PREORDER25 & this cookbook, Chími Nu'Am is on the list! Sale ends Fri 4/28/23.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ch-mi-nuam-sara-calvosa-olson/1143013108?ean=9781597146159

#Indigenous #Native #IndigenousFood #NDN #NativeCA #CaNative #recipes #HeydayBooks #Food

My timing didn't work out for any of the forays, but one of my cabinmates kindly gave me one of her honking big chanterelles, and I have an inoculated shiitake log and a bag of oyster mushrooms to take care of over the next few months so I can harvest my own! And I learned a ton and met wonderful people, and sold some #HeydayBooks books!

I'm more interested in what our orders from local indie bookstores will look like, but Deep Oakland by Andrew Alden ranking number 1 of all new geology releases MONTHS before it comes out is, I hope, a great preview of the reception this book will have on release! #HeydayBooks #DeepOakland #geologyrocks #geology

@als355 @Karafortier @Oozenet @FlintDibble @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

Checkout titles from #HeydayBooks and #NewsFromNativeCA
Malcolm Margolin's Ohline Way and his newest "Deep Hanging Out" are a solid starting point.
https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/deep-hanging-out-wanderings-and-wonderment-in-native-california/