. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, the area also supports a thriving ecosystem of professional wildlife photographers, including local lad Andy Howard. It is, quite simply, a little light on information. “Governments and big business love research; it means they don’t have to do anything now.”. British Wildlife Photography Awards 10. I’d also have liked to see more of the smaller creatures. Amusing anecdotes and community spirit are noticeable in their absence (I wondered, for example, whether anyone had taught Calidas animal husbandry). Inevitably with a subject as vast as our largest county, it’s impossible to cover every aspect of what makes Yorkshire special. This is a guidebook you can dip in and out of while at home, but it will also be an indispensable guide for when we’re able to explore England’s wonderfully diverse coast again. A bestseller, it shifted more copies than any of his other works, surprising even the author, who told a friend: “My book has been received with almost laughable enthusiasm.” It was about earthworms. But the exceptional quality of England revealed here is the iniquity of land distribution and access, and the ease with which many of us seem to accept this fragmentation of our history and our nature. A Flora of Cornwall. If recent months have taught us anything, it’s that both community spirit and pernicious prejudice can thrive in the city and countryside alike. Complete with handy illustrations, this is the bible of off-grid life, from growing veg and raising livestock to, The New Complete Book of Self-sufficiency on Amazon, A charming jaunt through the remarkable species that inhabit our planet. Set on Dartmoor after the Second World War, it focuses on Wulfgar – a heroic dark fox with “a brush almost as black as the peaty soil” – and his interactions with foxes, otters, badgers and other animals as they battle to outwit vile Scoble, a lonely trapper burning with hatred for their kind. Reviewed by Lucy Bellamy, editor of Gardens Illustrated. Reviewed Margaret Bartlett, production editor of BBC Countryfile Magazine. As in The Horseman, rural living is conjured up exquisitely, the reader sinking into the rhythms of the land. Buy Wildlife books from Waterstones.com today. “It’s catching, not fishing,” his grandfather chided as Will Millard boasted of his latest carp fishing exploits. He camps on empty beaches, walks over seldom-conquered peaks, steps through forests where only deer tread. Heartfelt, thought-provoking, brilliant. Sometimes life has other ideas. You're now subscribed to our newsletter. They embarked on a ‘hands-off’ naturalistic grazing project, using free-roaming herds of animals. Fish caught from overstocked commercial pools, where the banks are sculpted and the undergrowth neatly clipped, is a wholly different world to the Fenland drains and rivers where Will’s grandfather had taken him as a child. Perched in the … For both the experienced wildlife tourist and the novice, the suggestions criss-cross England, Scotland and Wales, complete with inspiring itineraries, engaging descriptions, detailed directions and tips on how to find, identify and enjoy British animals, … Reviewed by Julie Brominicks, nature writer, Buy Spirit of Place by Susan Owens at Waterstones. He is well scarred from a life of travelling and exploration, but his experiences have made him wise. “A medieval landscape without a human figure is a rare thing indeed,” writes Susan Owens, who deftly charts the progression of the British landscape from background to centre stage. More Info. Reading nature books with children is a great way to encourage an interest in wildlife. This is in no small part due to O’Mara’s confident and deft handling of his topic. I poured over the beautifully illustrated plan of what a complete and perfect walled garden might look like in part one of the book, but otherwise, horticultural information is scant. It concludes with a new chapter by his son Andrew, updating the swift story with the latest information from high-tech gadgets such as GPS tags. Put down your phone and look up! About this book. Six years ago, H Is for Hawk charged through the international bestseller lists and left its mark on nature writing with all the raw power of a goshawk in a forest. If escape-to-the-country books about scones and mischievous goats are your thing, then this is not for you. The passion Stephen Neale has for the English coast  comes across loud and clear in this beautifully presented guidebook. If, half-way through, I couldn’t care if another fish is caught, then I know the remaining hours will be a pleasure. And to get readers started, there are some practical yet thought-provoking exercises to try. Find our best selection and offers online, with FREE Click & Collect or UK delivery. In just a sentence or two, he cuts to the quick. There are swifts and silver birch, barn owls (pictured) and seals, oaks and thrift and mountain hares. Hugo Rittson Thomas’s captivating book is a visual celebration of these meadows, and is very much a book of wildflowers for everyone. Fences were ripped up, drains removed and a river rewilded. This means no more sandpipers and willow warblers – a heartrending loss to someone who loves the natural world. Reviewed by Julie Brominicks, outdoors writer, Buy a Honeybee Heart Has Five openings by Helen Jukes on Amazon. collapse. new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters. If you accept the challenge, you will find yourself swiftly and confidently drawn into this avian world. His digging into the origins of the vast acres from which we are excluded finds owners who have inherited the wealth, but not the shame, of slave-owners and land-clearers – yet have managed to spin that into an entitlement that tries to keep us from 90% of the land and 93% of the waterways. Here he spends a year on a number of expeditions roaming the extraordinary peninsulas from Mallaig to the Sound of Mull. She addresses a great many of our 21st-century neuroses and, by outlining various ways we can interact with nature, teases out the benefits of plugging ourselves back into our natural environment – even if the only scrap of accessible greenery is a patch of scrubby urban wasteland. Scoble is aided and abetted by a lurcher called Jacko, a canine psychopath who (unlike the wild creatures) kills purely to satisfy his bloodlust. Listen to the latest episodes from our country podcast. A great spotted woodpecker and badger engage in tit-for-tat banter, while swifts shred the sky in hooligan gangs: “those handbrake-turners, those wheelie-pullers, those firers-up of the afterburners…”, In places, The Lost Spells is explicit about threats to the natural world, and here too is ‘Heartwood’, Macfarlane’s protest poem against the pointless felling of street trees. Reviewed by Christopher Ridout, outdoor writer, Buy In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara at Waterstones, By Susan Owens, Thames and Hudson, £25 (HB). Will has a great depth of knowledge but is also self-aware and happy to walk more carefully the paths down which he once ran. When talking about the “insect armageddon”, for example, he points out how raptor declines in the 1960s were found to be linked to the chemicals that were used in sheep dips and agriculture. Hudson reveals the clues apparent to “anyone who knows what to look for” that will tell the story of a garden’s past, and applies this knowledge to 12 walled gardens, all of which are publicly open. For nearly 20 years, author Lara Maiklem has scoured the shores of the capital’s river at low tide, discovering discarded bounty – from Roman hairpins to silver shillings – that evokes long-lost ways of life. This stunning coffee table book is a celebration of British Wildlife as captured on camera by today’s best amateur and professional photographers. His awareness of the environment and eye for wildlife resonated as I read, and Will writes with a genuine sense of humility. Wildlife charts. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and Presenter, archaeologist and historian Jules Hudson describes himself as “an enthusiastic amateur gardener” and here he explores the British walled garden in the context of Britain’s historical and cultural heritage. Filled with beautiful images, these … All Among the Barley is a powerful evocation of a restless rural community at a crossroads, when reaping machines, tarmac roads, the wireless and other inventions were starting to challenge long-established ways of doing things. I can’t get its brooding, gothic imagery out of my head. Reviewed by Ben Hoare, naturalist and author, Hugo Rittson Thomas, Wildflower Press, £50 (HB). Then again, this is a book about how landscape is interpreted not shaped, and in that it is second to none. The Royal Entomological Society Book of British Insects. Calidas shows us that to tackle this truth, you first need the courage to face it. Are humans really independent? As the prologue says: “Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear.”, Buy The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris at Waterstones. This massive granite massif, with its hulking whaleback mountains, snowbound corries, ancient Caledonian pine forest and sparkling salmon rivers, is home to some of our most exciting wildlife, from pine martens to red deer and ospreys. With its enormous gilded pages and accurate yet fantastical artwork of Britain’s wild plants and creatures, 2017’s The Lost Words had something of a medieval bestiary about it. He declares, with the intent I presume to generate just the reaction it got from me, that the swallow is the best-loved bird in the world. This fabulous anecdote about The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits (a title no publisher would allow today) is one of many wonderful wormy tales unearthed by Coulthard, . These range from white-fronted geese to corn buntings, ducks, raptors and warblers, with content featuring a heady mix of data, art and anecdote in a book curated by Kit Jewitt – a “birder and part-time conservationist”. . Fortunately, Neil Ansell has devoted his life to the roads less travelled – especially where there are no roads. "British Wildlife is the pulsating heart of the UK nature conservation movement" Matthew Oates, National Trust "The most important and informative publication on wildlife of our times" Michael McCarthy, The Independent "Packed with readable, thoughtful, up to date articles; written by ecologists and naturalists for ecologists and naturalists" ... Shop books at NHBS.
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