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Our latest books, proceeds of which support The Wildlife Trusts are described below:
WILDLIFE GARDENING FOR EVERYONE:
your questions answered by the RHS and The Wildlife Trusts
Price £12.99
Published by Think Books, 7th April 2006 (ISBN 1845250168)
Order from all good book shops and online via Subbuteo www.wildlifebooks.com
With over 15 million gardens in the UK covering 270,000 hectares, gardens cover more space than all the National Nature Reserves in the UK.
Wildlife Gardening for Everyone is a unique handbook crammed with advice from a variety of experts on developing and cultivating a wildlife friendly garden. The book has been inspired by the Wild about Gardens project www.wildaboutgardens.org between the Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts in which members of the public have been encouraged to swap ideas, experiences, questions and answers. This takes the very best of these ideas, and expands on them with expert in-depth advice from professional RHS gardeners and The Wildlife Trust naturalists.
Covering over 100 gardening and wildlife themes, the book encompasses a selection of real gardeners’ greatest wildlife moments, gardening anecdotes from celebrities, facts on why cultivating wildlife is so important and advice on designing a wildlife-friendly garden. Also included are general gardening features including gardening for health and wildlife checklists.
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WILDLIFE WALKS: GREAT DAYS OUT AT OVER 500 TOP NATURE RESERVES
NEW EDITION – WITH A FOREWORD BY CHRIS PACKHAM
Price £14.99
Published 2008 by Think Books an imprint of Pan Macmillian Ltd (ISBN 9781845250515)
Order from all good books shops or from Pan Macmillan books by telephone: 020 7014 6000 or order online
Back by popular demand, this new version of Wildlife Walks comes with a complete redesign, making it even more easy to use and refer to. Covering over 500 of the Wildlife Trusts’ reserves throughout the UK, with details of what wildlife you can see, seasonal advice and over 400 original maps, illustrations and photographs, Wildlife Walks is and essential handbook for a great family day out.
In addition to detailed information on hundreds of individual walks across the UK, the book includes guidance on:
- Animal tracking – how to identify common tracks seen while out walking
- Understanding the geology of the British landscape
- Understanding underwater nature
PRAISE FOR WILDLIFE WALKS:
“These nature reserves are out there on all of our doorsteps just waiting to be explored, and it’s a rich legacy that we, the currect crop of naturalists, walkers and picnickers, have inherited”
Chris Packham, wildlife broadcaster
“The Wildlife Trusts have fantastic nature reserves and this book is a must for anyone interested in wildlife. Buy it and visit a reserve today!!”
Bill Oddie, author and broadcaster
“Wildlife reserves of the UK are the great roofless cathedrals of the country. The more people that visit them, the more valuable they will become. This book helps to open the cathedral doors.”
Simon Barnes, author
For more information contact Emma Giacon on 020 7014 6186 or e.giacon@macmillan.co.uk
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152 WILD THINGS TO DO
Price £14.99
Published 18 June 2010 by Elliott & Thompson Ltd ISBN 9781904027898
Order from all good books shops
152 Wild Things to Do is a new family-friendly guide packed with inspirational ideas to connect with UK wildlife. The book includes entries from each of the 47 Wildlife Trusts as well as more than 100 practical ways to discover nature wherever you are. From planting wildlife-friendly plants to searching through rockpools, this family-friendly guide is perfect for nature lovers everywhere.
'There are enough ideas in the book to keep anyone - particularly families and children - outdoors all year. Some focused on visiting the best of the Wildlif Trusts' 2,250 nature reserves across the UK (from wild daffodil spotting in Wallis Wood to puffin fancying at Flamborough Cliffs) and others are ways to help conserve things (start a compost heap, feed butterflies, build a pond) but all are about sheer pleasure - wild swimming, making elderflower cordial or simply savouring being in wild places, surrounded by wild things, whether it's in the mountains of Scotland or the heart of a city.' Patrick Barkham - Guardian.co.uk
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WILDFLOWER DETECTIVES' HANDBOOK
Price £7.99
Published February 2010 by Miles Kelly Publishing ISBN 9781848102491
Order from all good books shops
Wildflower Detectives’ Handbook is a fantastic guide to help you identify more than 40 wildflower species found in the UK. Key information and photographs accompany beautifully detailed illustrations for every flower.
Use the interactive boxes to write notes, sketch your finds and stick in your own photos. Place the stickers to chart your progress and log on to the Wildlife Watch website to record your finds. Includes pull-out wildflower hotspots poster.
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CHRIS PACKHAM'S BACK GARDEN NATURE RESERVE
Price £12.99
Published 25 February 2010 by New Holland Publishers Ltd ISBN 9781847736987
Order from all good books shops
A practical guide to attracting wildlife to the garden, including easy-to-use diagrams on nest box construction, insect collection, pond life photography and other practical activities.
As well as offering a new perspective on robins, hedgehogs and other familiar favourites, this comprehensive guide overturns traditional ideas of pests and weeds and explains the vital role that all organisms play in the garden ecosystem.
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CONCISE WILDFLOWER GUIDE
Price £4.99
Published 25 April 2010 by New Holland Publishers Ltd ISBN 9781847736031
Order from all good books shops
Accurate artwork of more than 180 species with essential details on ID, habitat and growth. Also includes foldout insert featuring at-a-glance comparisons between species by colour. All in a concise book with a durable plastic cover.
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CONCISE BIRD GUIDE
Price £4.99
Published 25 April 2010 by New Holland Publishers Ltd ISBN 9781847736017
Order from all good books shops
Accurate artwork of more than 250 species, with variations. It includes essential details on ID, habitat and behaviour along with foldout insert featuring at-a-glance comparisons of species’ flight profiles. All in a concise book with a durable plastic cover.
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CONCISE BUTTERFLY & MOTH GUIDE
Price £4.99
Published 25 April 2010 by New Holland Publishers Ltd ISBN 9781847736024
Order from all good books shops
Accurate artwork of more than 150 species with variations in colour and pattern. Including essential details on ID, habitat and behaviour. Also a foldout insert sheet featuring at-a-glance comparisons between similar species. All in a concise book with a durable plastic cover.
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Coming soon BIRDS IN YOUR GARDEN
New Edition
Published Autumn 2010 by A C & Black (ISBN 9781845250447)
Birds in your Garden is a brand new, full-colour guide to common and unusual garden birds. This book shows you how you can turn your garden into a haven for birds, and is packed with advice from Royal Horticultural Society and Wildlife Trusts experts.
With this book, you can find out how to encourage a host of birds into your garden, helping them to get through their days and nights, and giving you even greater pleasure from your own personal nature reserve.
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THE WILDLIFE COMPANION
Price £9.99 (plus £1.99 p+p). Order online via Subbuteo www.wildlifebooks.com
A book for anyone who has ever heard a bird sing, watched a moth flutter against the light, or ambled through a bluebell wood, and wondered how such a diverse and beautiful natural world could possibly have come about. The Wildlife Companion introduces you to the extraordinary and complex natural world in which we live, through a miscellany of fascinating facts and stunning statistics on Britain’s beasts, birds, bugs and blooms. It is the perfect book for anyone with an interest in nature. Half of profits from this book go to The Wildlife Trusts.
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BRITAIN'S ORCHIDS
by David Lang
RRP £15.00
ISBN 1903657067
Order from WILDGuides or Subbuteo (details below)
Britain's Orchids by David Lang, published as part of the WILDGuides & English Nature Britain's Wildlife series, is a comprehensive photographic guide to all the orchids found in Britain and Ireland. Each species has a colour plate showing the plant in its natural habitat, together with a relevant close-up of the spike or flower and commonly occurring colour forms. The book is aimed at the general naturalist, as well as anyone with an interest in orchids.
David Lang is a retired veterinary surgeon who has spent most of his life working in country practice in Sussex. A keen natural historian and photographer, his main interest is in the orchids of Great Britain and travelling.
A percentage of the profits from the sale of the book (approx. £1 per book) will be donated to The Wildlife Trusts for conservation projects benefiting orchids across the UK.
192 pages, 60 colour plates.
WILDGuides Order Line: 0870 1214 177
www.wildguides.co.uk / Email: info@wildguides.co.uk
WILDGuides is a non-profit making publishing organisation with a
commitment to supporting wildlife conservation. Working in partnership with
English Nature, WILDGuides specialises in producing definitive yet
simple-to-use identification field guides to wildlife. The profits from
these guides support a range of nature conservation charities, with over
£10,000 donated during the last five years.
Subbuteo: Tel: 0870 0109700 / www.wildlifebooks.co.uk
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