2023 年 7 月，Lee Raye 编写的 The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution 在远洋出版社（Pelagic Publishing）出版。这是一部别出心裁的新书，从 1529 年至 1772 年间的 200 余种英国、爱尔兰博物学史料中摭采了上万条记录，以当代图鉴书的形式整理出 153 种动物在现代早期的记述与分布，既可以供科学史研究者利用，也提供了环境史方面的信息。
作者对本书的介绍可见《对话》（The Conversation）网刊刊登的文章与博物学图书服务社（NHBS）的作者访谈。
原图书简介：
What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before climate change, before the intensification of agriculture, before even the Industrial Revolution. In the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, beavers still swim in the River Ness. Isolated populations of wolves and lynxes linger in the uplands. Sea eagles are widespread around the coasts. Wildcats and pine martens remain common in the Lake District.
In this ground-breaking volume, the observations of early modern amateur naturalists, travellers and local historians are gathered together for the very first time. Drawing on over 10,000 records from across Britain and Ireland, the book presents maps and notes on the former distribution of over 160 species, providing a new baseline against which to discuss subsequent declines and extinctions, expansions and introductions. A guide to identification describes the reliable and unreliable names of each species, including the pre-Linnaean scientific nomenclature, as well as local names in early modern English and, where used in the sources, Irish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Norn.
Raising a good number of questions at the same time as it answers many others, this remarkable resource will be of great value to conservationists, archaeologists, historians and anyone with an interest in the natural heritage of Britain and Ireland.
编者简介：
Lee Raye is an associate lecturer at the Open University and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society specialising in the history of wild animals and plants in pre-industrial Britain and Ireland. Their translation of Robert Sibbald’s (1684) Wild Plants of Scotland and The Animals of Scotland was published in 2020.