General Wildlife
Our round up of the best wildlife books of the year.....
Alastair Fothergill and David Attenborough
The makers of The Blue Planet present the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet.
A fantastic visual experience that combines action, wonderful locations and our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to witness sights and sounds you may never experience again
Region restrictions: regions 2 + 4 (PAL UK) &l;
Subtitles: English
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DVD | 2006 | #160500 | £39.99 | Offer Price £35.99
BBC Books
This new collection of stunning wildlife
photographs represents the best images taken by
top nature photographers around the world that
have been submitted to the 2006 Wildlife
Photographer of the Year competition.
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hardcover | Edition 16 | 2006 | #159117 | £25.00
Thomas Marent
In this
lavish book the largely unexplored
ecosystems of rainforests are revealed through the spectacular
photography of Thomas Marent. Over 16 years in the making, Marent has travelled
across 5 continents and dedicated half his life to
capturing the astonishing variety and fascinating
behaviour of rainforest life - from flesh-eating
army ants and poisonous frogs to the vast colonies
of technicolour butterflies that flutter high in
the canopy.
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hardcover | 2006 | #160501 | £25.00
Catherine Cheung and Lyndon DeVantier
Located in the Arabian Sea, east of the Horn of
Africa, the Socotra Islands of Yemen are often
referred to as the `Galapagos of the Indian
Ocean'.
This book provides a comprehensive review of these fascinating
islands flora, fauna and people. While
documenting the geological history, land and
marine biodiversity, ecology and human culture.
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hardcover | 2006 | #161475 | £39.50
Paul D Stewart
"Galapagos" is a rare insight into an incredible
landscape, a natural laboratory and an exquisite
evolutionary habitat that Darwin described as a
'world within itself'. Both fragile and furious,
the Galapagos is unlike any other place on earth.
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softcover | 2006 | #159173 | £18.99
Edited by David Macdonald
This excellent book covers the behaviour, diet, distribution, and
evolution of every known living mammal in the
world in clear, accessible language, and is
illustrated throughout with spectacular
photographs and original artwork.
An essential work for zoologists and natural
historians, this book is also a stunning point of
reference for families and for anyone interested
in the mammals of the world.
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hardcover | Edition 2 | 2006 | #159047 | £35.00
Michael Chinery
This book shows how to produce nature conservation areas for
animals,
insects and plants in our own back gardens.
Projects and special
features include creating a wildflower meadow,
looking after
injured, baby and hibernating hedgehogs, making a
bat roost or
bat box and siting it, developing a wildlife pond,
planting a
butterfly garden, and filming and photographing
wildlife in your
garden.
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softcover | 2006 | #152971 | £9.99
Hans Kruuk
Otters are highly charismatic and popular animals
of very considerable concern to conservationists
worldwide. Its personal style and
generously illustrated text will appeal to
amateurs and professionals alike. It emphasises
recent research and conservation management
initiatives for all 13 species of otter worldwide,
incorporates recent molecular research on taxonomy
and population genetics, and discusses the wider
implications of otter studies for ecology and
conservation biology.
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hardcover | 2006 | #157499 | £60.00
softcover | 2006 | #157500 | £27.50
Hadoram Shirihai and Brett Jarrett
This new field guide is a complete and convenient
reference to every species of cetacean, pinniped
and sirenian in the world, along with the Marine
and Sea Otters and the Polar Bear. Every species
is illustrated with colour paintings and
photographs, chosen to illustrate the key field
marks which can be used to separate each species
in the field.
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softcover | 2006 | #152441 | £12.99
Steve Bloom
A photographic journey into the world of the
elephant, from the wildest outreaches of Botswana
to the teeming cities of India.
Twelve years of work on the part of acclaimed
wildlife photographer Steve Bloom has resulted in
this joyous celebration of the elephant, from the
wildest outreaches of Botswana to the teeming
cities of India. This is the ultimate book on
the elephant, and a intimate a photographic journey..
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hardcover | December 2006 | #160456 | £24.95
RA Mittermeier et al
A transboundary conservation area refers to an
area that straddles international boundaries and
is managed cooperatively for conservation purposes
and may include adjacent national parks and other
protected areas.
This book reviews the history of the transboundary
conservation concept and application, as well as
summarizes the latest information available and
the many benefits that these areas provide.
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hardcover | 2005 | #156573 | £31.50
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