Key Natural History Titles for the North West of England
Summer is here and with it more opportunities to experience the fauna and flora in your local area. To
help you enjoy what's on your doorstep we have put together a list of key natural history titles covering wildlife in your area. To
view our list of titles for other regions just click on the link Regional Selections. For further reading about the natural history of Britain we recommend Nature's Calendar, a month-by-month guide to Britain's best wildlife
locations, and Silent Fields which traces man's impact on wildlife
in Britain since the 16th Century.
Our unique "Browse by Geozone" feature which allows you
to view all titles by region is available from our website www.nhbs.com We
hope these titles and the selection below help you to make the most of the wildlife on your doorstep and wherever you travel.
Edited by Chris Sharpe
The Manx Bird Atlas project was established to undertake the first
comprehensive survey of all bird species to be found on the Island of Man. During the five-year programme of work
professional ornithologists surveyed the entire Island using new and
innovative survey techniques. The
survey, which ran from 1998 to 2003, is the most detailed of its
kind ever undertaken in Europe. Such methods have generated
data that provides distribution and abundance information for 150
species.
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hardcover | 2007 | #161068 | £60.00
Tim Dean and Jeremy Roberts
Details no fewer than fifty gentle
walks in Cumbria with excellent birdwatching. Walks can be planned using
the seasonal occurrence chart. Easy-to-follow route maps are provided for
all walks, each of which ends at the same place it starts; Each walk
suggests the best places to look, and species to watch out for; Walks can
be planned using the invaluable seasonal occurrence chart.
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softcover | 2002 | #160495 | £9.50
Angus Winchester
This title forms part of the England's
Landscape series. The most detailed
description of why the countryside of England now looks the way it does,
covering the geology, archaeology and history of each area and what
effects each has had on the landscape we see today.
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hardcover | 2006 | #152986 | £35.00
Alan Conlin, Chris Sharpe et al
A guide to the best birding sites in
the counties of Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire. This area holds some of
the finest upland sites in England, as well as some superb wetlands
including Morecambe Bay. The Northern England coast has a good record for
attracting Nearctic vagrants, and the Lake District is the only place in
England where Golden Eagles breed. Part of the Where to
Watch Birds
series from Helm.
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softcover |
Edition 3 | October 2007 (pre-orders being taken now)
| #133992 | £14.99
Laurie Fellows
One of an illustrated 3-volume
guide to the wild flowers of Northern England, with simple,
non-technical descriptions of their features and attributes, when and
where to find them, and details of about 60 spectacular walks.
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softcover | 2004 | #137812 | £7.99
Rebecca Barrett and Mike Langman
The North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a
wonderful place to watch birds. The rich mix of natural habitats,
wildlife and stunning landscapes is unique in England. This guide
is a fine introduction.
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softcover | 2005 | #154838 | £7.99
Jonathan Guest and Andy Harmer
This atlas includes sections on conservation, estimating
populations, distribution, amphibians in place-names, amphibian
habitats in Cheshire etc.
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softcover | 2006 | #158432 | £13.95
Edited by M Edmunds, T Mitcham, G Morries and D Bellamy
Written by local experts, the book's
aim is to introduce anyone who enjoys exploring the natural wonders of
this region, and is packed full of superb images. This is your personal
guide to an area overflowing with fascinating wildlife there for
discovery.
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hardcover | 2004 | #151306 | £32.00
A Coney and WG Hale
Martin Mere is a vast marsh that, until it was drained in
1700, was the largest lake in England. This fascinating volume
explores the history of the mere, from Thomas Fleetwood's
drainage proposal, to the ensuing dramatic transformations of the area's
wildlife, up to the mere's current status as
a protected nature reserve. This book provides a comprehensive
portrait of one of the most striking areas of natural beauty in all
the British Isles.
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softcover | 2005 | #152728 | £14.95
Martin Varley
The Lake District has some of the
wildest countryside in England, with an abundance of sites designated for
nature conservation. Wild Lakeland
is
not simply a natural history or wildlife guidebook. It paints
a wide canvas by of a journey from the sea to
the summits, focussing on wildlife habitats and weaving in
stories of people and places.
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hardcover | 2005 | #156985 | £14.99
Edited by Malcolm Stott et al
Each of the 152 species has a 2-page spread including a 700+ word
account and maps of distribution and abundance.
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hardcover | 2002 | #129411 | £42.00
Brian W Fox, Jonathan Guest and Andy Harmer
Just thirty years ago, lichens were a rarity in Cheshire due to the
chronic air pollution suffered. This book documents the return of
lichens to the countryside and describes lichen habitats from the
Wirral coast to the Pennine hills. Also summarised is the present
status of each species through distribution maps.
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softcover | 2003 | #144160 | £10.95
D Hodgkinson, E Huckerby, R Middleton and CE Wells
Describes the results of a survey, spread over the years 1991 to
1997, of the archaeological and palaeoecological significance of
the lowland wetlands of Cumbria.
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softcover | 2000 | #110646 | £48.00
Martin Varley
Describes ten wild flower walks in the Southern area of the Lake
District.
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softcover | | #166097 | £9.95
Geoffrey Halliday
A much needed flora for Cumbria, which contains data collected
from 1974 to 1997.
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hardcover | 1997 | #68761 | £61.00
softcover | 1997 | #55298 | £45.00
FSC
This fold-out chart is aimed at Pennine
Way walkers who wish to find out a little more about the
wildlife and landscapes of the areas through which they are walking.
It features artwork to help identify the common birds, upland sheep,
other mammals and plants of the Pennine Way, and
a written description of the physical and human features of the
major areas through which the Pennine Way passes.
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unbound | 2006 | #160623 | £3.50
NJ Higham
The book starts by painting a
picture of the North West at the time of Domesday: a sparsely settled land
of little hamlets, fells, woods and marshes. It then tells the story of
the region's dynamic economic growth between 1100 and 1350: the
development of open fields, the new exploitation of wastes and woodland,
and an expanding population. Part of the Landscapes
of Britain
series.
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softcover | 2004 | #147167 | £19.99
D Huddart and N Glasser
The Quaternary is
a time of rapid climatic change significant in shaping
the natural landscape of Northern England. This volume describes 70 Geological Conservation Review sites that
hold the key to understanding how these climatic changes
affected the area's natural environment, which includes the
Cheviots, Pennines, the Lake District, Peak District, North Yorkshire
Moors and all the surrounding lowland areas.
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hardcover | 2002 | #97568 | £70.00
We hope you found plenty of interesting titles in our selection; please visit our website www.nhbs.com and view our unique "Geozone" feature which allows you to view all titles by their appropriate region.
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