On December 17th, the second Pingshan Natural History Book Award held an online award ceremony, and the judging committee selected 5 books from 30 outstanding selected works, and selected five awards: "Annual Thought Award", "Annual Chinese Award", "Youth Original Award", "Reader Recommendation Award" and "Hequehua Natural History Good Book Reading Award".
The Pingshan Nature Museum Book Award is the first nature book award held in Pingshan District, Shenzhen. Since its inception, it has mainly paid attention to and selected good books of natural history with rigorous scientific attitude, humanistic care feelings, promoting realistic changes, and benefiting the lives of the people, and rewards writers who are committed to disseminating natural science concepts and cognition, and who have thoughts, visions, and literary talents.
So what are some of the best natural history books that have won awards this year? Let's take a look!
Natural History Book Of Course Award: The Autobiography of David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough, Translator: He Yi/Li Jinxuan, Reviewer: Xi Zhinong, Publisher: Chongqing University Press
Awards: Written from the age of 26 to the age of 90, this autobiography documents David Attenborough's passion for the natural world and his lifelong desire to understand nature. In the book, we can see the stories behind the shooting of those classic documentaries that we are familiar with or know a little bit about. Optimistic, humorous, professional, brave, enthusiastic, and explaining nature with his life, this is not only a personal autobiography, but also a cross-century natural and humanistic reflection.
Thought of the Year Award: "Detective So cain"
Author: John G.T. Anderson, Translator: Qianli Feng, Reviewer: Zhu Jinjie, Publisher: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press
Award Speech: This book tells some important ideas in the history of the development of naturalism over the past three thousand years, as well as the experience and contributions of a group of great naturalists, outlining the history of the rise, prosperity, decline and revival of naturalism, so that the dusty people and stories that created the conditions for the birth of modern ecology can be seen again. In today's world of rapidly changing ecological environments, this book is intended to awaken the naturalistic spirit in people's hearts and rebuild the close connection between man and nature.
Chinese of the Year Award: "Landscapes Li Bai Has Never Seen"
Author: Shan Zhiqiang, Publisher: China National Geographic 丨Kyushu Publishing House
Award Speech: A masterpiece of human geography with ideas, literary style, evidence, grand vision and exquisite details. Through decades of field surveys, literature inquiries and more rare academic imagination, the author redefines the concept of Chinese landscape, and builds the landscapes that the ancients have never seen before - such as alluvial fans, river bends, Tiansheng Bridge, basalt rock column groups and other wonders into a new natural landscape and a new image of China, so that more people can appreciate the beauty of nature, he will integrate natural science and humanities, full of passion, but also very creative.
Youth Original Award: "There is a Tree in the North"
Author: Ouyang Ting, Publisher: The Commercial Press
Award speech: A book of natural observation and urban phenology notes written after living in the "north" for a long time, from the flowers and trees within reach, to the untraceable forest creatures, to the unique museum collection, from the river, the mountains, the earth, the sky, to the observation, thinking, understanding, and knowledge, the author shows the natural picture of the unity of everything in the four seasons with beautiful and affectionate words, as well as the beauty of the in-depth communication between man and nature.
Readers' Recommendation Award: Birds Outside the Window
Author: Yan Jun/Guan Furong/Bright, Publisher: Hubei Science and Technology Press
Award speech: At the beginning of 2020, the "lockdown" of more than 70 days pressed the "pause button" of Wuhan, which also gave birth to this book of home bird watching. This book is a beautiful product of the in-depth communication between man and nature in a special period, and its enlightenment for the harmonious coexistence between man and nature is extremely precious.
Ten books recommended by the jury:
"Noriyuki Yamakawa"
Author: Zang Mu, Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press
Handbook of Chinese Bird Observation
Author: Liu Yang / Chen Shuihua, Publisher: China National Geographic 丨Hunan Science and Technology Press
Victoria Museum Romance
Author: [Mei] Lynn Merrill, Translator: Zhang Xiaotian, Publisher: China Science and Technology Press
Journey to Deep Time
Author: [English] Robert McFarlane, Translator: Wang Rufei, Publisher: Wenhui Publishing House
"The Other Shore"
Author: [Beauty] Stephen Jay Gould, Translator: Gu Xuan, Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
"The Daughter of the Flower God"
Author: [Plus] Ann Hidal, Translator: Jiang Hong, Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House
The Invisible Enemy
Author: [English] Dorothy Crawford, Translator: Zhang Jingjing, Publisher: Yilin Press
"Those Flying Feathers in My Life"
Author: Cat Demon in the Bird's Nest, Publisher: The Commercial Press
The Origin of Form
Author: [United States] Christopher Williams, Translator: Wang Yejin, Publisher: Houlang 丨Zhejiang Education Publishing House
The Octopus Mind
Author: [Australia] Peter Godfrey-Smith, Translator: Huang Ying, Publisher: Houlang 丨 Kyushu Publishing House