The latest in the popular and prize-winning series of "Year in the Life" books, this portrait of the Welsh Marches reveals the landscape, fauna and flora of this beguiling part of the country throughout the seasons. Stretching along the bordering counties with England - Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire - the region is made up of an enchanting mixture of mountains and moorlands, farms and wooded river valleys, and contains the densest concentration of motte-and-bailey castles to be found anywhere in England or Wales.