This second guide in the Gardening with Nature Series gives step by step advice on how to encourage butterflies to your garden. Jenny... Læs mere
This is a bright and cheerful photographic identification guide aimed at youngsters to help them discover wild flowers when out and about. The plants are arranged... Læs mere
In SWAT! just-hatched housefly Buzzter gets instructions from Professor Halfbottle on how to survive the dangers in life, like being eaten by various animals and... Læs mere
An autobiography shaped by birds and a personal obsession that has carried the author through life.
Foreword by Chris Packham. The author recounts his own experiences - the highs and the lows, the trials and tribulations - of being an avid birder in a world seemingly populated by experts and high-flyers. Join him on an often humorous and irreverent journey around the UK.
Young Bill, the author, moves with his family to a dairy farm in North Devon where he grows up for the next ten years. Adventures and disasters at... Læs mere
'A Weed-lover's Calendar' will show you how to discover the hidden pleasures of weeding!
Small Game Hunter echoes the author's fascination and appreciation of the strange and wonderful world of insects and spiders. It is a scientific and cultural kaleidoscope of the many encounters that he had across his career and around the globe.
A naturalist's account of the rich flora and wildlife encountered during an eight-day walk across the massif of Tymphi in Zagori, Greece.
The author, a professional conservationist, tells his own stories of truely exhilarating encounters of British wildlife, especially birds, while working as a nature warden.
Describes the struggle to become nationally recognised 'Birder of the Year', a competition involving much travelling and sometimes a little guile too. This book contains accounts of several bird species encountered, as well as descriptions of the habitats visited.
Offers an insight into the world of twitching, and the personal account of some of the author's missions to add birds to his increasing British life-list. This book... Læs mere