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Hidden trees of Britain.
London: Ebury Press, 2007. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Britain has 80 per cent of northern Europe's most ancient trees and a remarkable array of woodland types. This illustrated guide presents a regional overview, highlighting the great diversity of woodlands and hedgerow trees, as well as some breathtaking individuals, many..... More
Where to watch birds in Ireland.
London: A & C Black, (2009. second edition). Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. This new edition covers the best birdwatching sites in Ireland. In a format familiar to readers of this popular series, each site is considered in terms of 'Habitat', Access' and 'Birds', allowing birders of all levels to..... More
British Wildlife Photography Awards: collection one.
Basingstoke: AA Publishing, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The British Wildlife Photography Awards were devised by British Wildlife Photographer Chris Weston and Curator of Photography Maggie Gowan. The first awards were held in 2009 to widespread acclaim, with support from esteemed organisations including Natural England, WWF and Outdoor Photography magazine..... More
Landscape photographer of the year: collection five.
London: AA Publishing, 2012. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Landscape Photographer of the Year competition is the most prestigious competition and award with a total prize fund exceeding GBP 20,000, plus an eight-week exhibition at the National Theatre and publication of this full-colour book of best entries. Britain's heritage..... More
Where to watch mammals in Britain and Ireland.
London: A & C Black, 2007. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, maps. This new guide provides sites and useful information to enable the reader to find and observe every British and Irish mammal species, including all marine mammals. Taking a species-by-species approach, the accounts give some background detail on the range..... More
Lakes, loughs and lochs.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 128. This book provides a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations. The study of life in British lakes and rivers has..... More
Highlands: Scotland's wild heart.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. In the very north of Britain, far from the bustling cities and picturesque countryside to the south, lies Western Europe's greatest wilderness: the Scottish Highlands. This is a land shaped by the flow of ancient ice, where snow-capped mountains tower over ink-black..... More
Wild kingdom: bringing back Britain's wildlife.
London: Vintage, 2017. Octavo, paperback, Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain's wildlife is in trouble. It's not just rare creatures that are vanishing, hares and hedgehogs, skylarks and water voles, even the humble house sparrow, are in freefall..... More
Wild kingdom: bringing back Britain's wildlife.
London: Vintage, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain's wildlife is in trouble. Wild creatures that have lived here for thousands of years are disappearing, because of pollution and persecution, competition with alien species, changing farming..... More
Gower.
London: Harper Collins, (2007. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. New Naturalist 99. Traces the natural history of the Gower Peninsula (Located to the south west of Swansea in Wales) - from its heritage coast and its appeal to the naturalist, to the geology, geomorphology, conservation and ecological history. This book..... More
Great British marine animals.
Plymouth: Sound Diving Publications, (2011. third edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book is intended to serve several purposes. While designed to aid identification of the common animals of British Seas, it also incorporates as much material as possible showing how the animals go about their lives. There is information..... More
Britain's day-flying moths: a field guide to the day-Flying moths of Britain and Ireland.
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This concise photographic field guide details over 150 day-flying moths found in Britain and Ireland. Combining stunning photographs, authoritative text, and an easy-to-use design, this book makes a perfect travelling companion and one that will increase your enjoyment of these..... More
Britain's butterflies: a field guide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2015. third edition). Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, maps. A comprehensive and beautifully designed photographic field guide covering all of the breeding butterflies of Britain and Ireland. Containing hundreds of stunning colour photographs, this revised and updated edition provides the latest information on every species..... More
The Isles of Scilly.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 103. About 30 miles south-west of Land's end is the low group of rocks and islands that form the Isles of Scilly. Mysterious, romantic and beautiful, they have long exercised the imagination of story tellers and historians..... More
The gardens at Kew.
London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. With over a million visitors a year, Kew is one of the world's best-loved gardens. As well as having a fascinating history and holding an unchallenged position as the world's leading botanical research institute, it is a paradise for plant lovers..... More
The birds of Shetland.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, maps, colour photographs. The Shetland islands are nationally important for their 21 species of breeding seabirds, and other extremely rare or sporadic British breeding birds and migrants. This new avifauna looks in depth at the status, distribution and..... More
Butterfly safari.
Great Britain: Graffeg, 2023. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Andrew Fusek Peters has spent five years travelling round the UK to document and celebrate British butterflies. In Butterfly Safari, he shows butterflies in a new light, capturing close-ups of wing scales and the delicate structure of eggs, eyes and antennae..... More
Birds: the British Museum.
London: British Museum Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Now in a fresh new paperback format, this book showcases the British Museum's vast collection of bird images from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in..... More
The birds of Suffolk.
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This new county avifauna looks at the birdlife of Suffolk - one of the most important birding counties in England. Suffolk is relatively underdeveloped, with nationally important wetlands and heathlands, and a long, varied coastline. It is here that the Avocet first..... More
Birds new to Britain: 1980-2004.
London: Poyser, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs. Since 1980, a total of 72 bird species have been found for the first time in Britain. This new book is the successor to Birds new to Britain and Ireland by Sharrock and Grant, 1982 [stock id 2889] which covered the..... More
The vegetative key to the British flora: a new approach to naming British vascular plants based on vegetative characters.
Totton: John Poland, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings. Conventional field guides only work when you have flowers or fruit - something all botanists find rather frustrating when out in the field. This key is an outstanding innovation. It enables the user to easily identify over 3,000 native and..... More
England's rare mosses and liverworts: their history, ecology, and conservation.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts. Many are at risk from habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and other factors. Britain is one of the world's best bryologically recorded areas, yet of..... More
Wild flowers.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of the most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs..... More
Red kite country: a celebration of the wildlife and landscape of mid Wales.
Maidenhead: WILDGuides, 2004. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings. Containing superb photographs and beautiful watercolour paintings, this book is a celebration of the wildlife and landscape of mid Wales. Authors Mike Read and Colin Woolf have captured the essence of this unspoilt area, bringing its many moods and..... More