Join author of The Naming of the Shrew, John Wright, as he discusses the history of the Latin names used to describe our natural world. The Naming of the Shrew is the product of many years’ obsession with the colourful, eccentric, misleading and sometimes rude Latin names we use to describe our natural world.
John Wright is a natural historian and the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore, Hedgerow and Booze. A member of the British Mycological Society and a Fellow of the Linnean Society, John gives lectures on natural history and every year he takes around fifty ‘forays’, showing people how to collect food from hedgerow, shore, pasture and wood.