From Pocket Mountains, the publisher of Scotland`s bestselling walking & cycling guides, come two beautifully illustrated books that explore the diversity of Scotland`s wildlife & the habitats that sustain it. Each book contains not only the information you need to identify where to go & when for the best chance of glimpsing red kites & corncrake, pine marten & bottle-nosed dolphin but also enriches the wildlife lover`s understanding & appreciation of the landscape that sustains these & many other species. ” Wildlife Traveller: Scottish Mainland” accompanies you on a journey that begins with the sea cliffs, mudflats & saltmarshes of Southern Scotl&, travelling north through farm & woodland to Fife & Angus, the peaks & glens of the Highlands, & Grampian & the Far North. Researched & written by wildlife journalist & photographer, Richard Rowe, this book is a must for anyone who loves Scotland & its wildlife. This series also contains ” Wildlife Traveller: Scottish Islands”. ...

Wildlife in the AA 50 Walks series; comprising an extensive range of walking guides helping you to explore the best walking routes in Great Britain. Each guide covers a total of 50 walks, many of which are circular, between 2-10 miles & also that are suitable for a range of different walking standards. Every walk in the guides has an information box showing clear details of distance, minimum time, level of difficulty, any ascents, the nature of the terrain & landscape, suggested Ordnance Survey map, grid references for starting & finishing points, dog friendliness, parking & any public toilets en route. There are also suggestions of what to look out for & recommended places to eat & drink. Detailed walk descriptions are accompanied by clear mapping of the route ahead, in addition to colour photographs illustrating the highlights of selected routes. ...

Deadly TV presenter Steve Backshall joins Anthony Horowitz & Charlie Higson writing the best adventure fiction with his third adventure in the gripping Falcon Chronicles, filled with intrigue, adventure, exotic wildlife & dramatic locations. Saker & Sinter escape by the skin of their teeth when their plan to sabotage a billionaire businessman plundering `black gold` (natural oil & gas) & hunting wolves in the remote Yamal peninsula in North West Siberia goes disastrously wrong. But they escape one kind of peril only to find themselves in an even more terrifying situation. Separated by blizzards & avalanches, lost in a breathtakingly beautiful but deadly frozen Arctic wilderness, suffering from frostbite & hunger, listening to the wolves howl & the packs draw closer, it seems that this time they cannot possibly live to tell their tale... ...

Wildstrubel, map No. 263, in the standard topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, i.e. without the special overprint highlighting walking trails, local bus stops, etc, presented in Swisstopo’s hiking editions of the 50K survey. Coverage extends from Saanen & Gstaad in the west to Kandersteg in the east &

Includes:: Adelboden. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. All the maps have a 1-km grid with the Swiss national coordinates. This standard version of the 50K survey covers the whole country on 78 small format sheets, with special larger format maps published for several popular tourist destinations. Small format sheets cover an area of 35 x 24 km (21 x 15 miles approx) & have map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. The special larger sheets cover 50 x 35 km (31 x 22 miles approx) & have no map legend, but a separate leaflet can be provided instead.PLEASE NOTE: the hiking editions of the 1:50, 000 Swisstopo survey are listed on our website in a separate series.

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Wildstrubel area, map No. 263T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Coverage extends from Saanen & Gstaad in the west to Kandersteg in the east &

Includes:: Adelboden & on the eastern edge Kandersteg. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link.

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‘ Wildwood’ is about the element of wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture & our lives.” So said Roger Deakin of this, his last book, that was published posthumously; a marvellous piece of natural history & cultural writing, it is an unmatched exploration of our relationship with trees. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia & Australia, in search of what lies behind man’s profound & enduring connection with wood & with trees. Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks & cabins, travels in search of the wild apple groves of Kazakhstan, goes coppicing in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, & hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Part autobiography, history, traveller’s tale & also an incisive work of natural history, it will take you into the heart of the woods, where we go ‘to grow, learn, & change’. ...

Wilfred & Olbert are wildlife explorers! Grab your boots & join them on a race through colourful coral reefs, wild grasslands & secret tropical jungles. Will you be the first to discover a new animal...? Let`s go! Packed full of puzzles, activities & fascinating animals on every page, Wilfred & Olbert`s Totally Wild Chase is the perfect book for budding explorers & adventurers. With bright & lively illustrations from new talent, Lomp, this utterly riotous storybook brings the natural world to life! ...

Wilfred & Olbert are wildlife explorers! Grab your boots & join them on a race through colourful coral reefs, wild grasslands & secret tropical jungles. Will you be the first to discover a new animal...? Let`s go! Packed full of puzzles, activities & fascinating animals on every page, Wilfred & Olbert`s Totally Wild Chase is the perfect book for budding explorers & adventurers. With bright & lively illustrations from new talent, Lomp, this utterly riotous storybook brings the natural world to life! ...

No poetry has touched readers` hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets & biographers of our present day. Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed
- as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers
- by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.

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' One of the very few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries' David Attenborough An exquisite pictorial record, charting the career & outstanding achievements of one of the country's most distinguished travel writers & photographers, & the twentieth century's greatest explorer. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 at the original British Legation -- a collection of wattle-&-daub tukuls -- in Addis Ababa, & spent his early years in Abyssinia. He was educated at Eton & Oxford & at the age of twenty attended the coronation of HIM Haile Selassie at the emperor's personal invitation. Three years later he made his first expedition into the country of the murderous Danakil tribe. He joined the Sudan political service in 1935 & served in the War in Abyssinia & the Middle East with Special Operations Executive & the Special Air Service under David Stirling. After that, he traversed the Empty Quarter twice whilst living among the Bedu, & spent several years with the Marshmen of Iraq. He made many mountain journeys in the awesome ranges of the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, Ladakh & Chitral. Following these varied & often dangerous adventures among fast-disappearing cultures, Thesiger settled down to spend over twenty years living among the pastoral Samburu in Kenya, until returning to England in 1994. He died in Surrey in August 2003. Over the years Thesiger's experiences provided rich material for several books, all received with great acclaim. His always loved to record his exploits on film, & his nationally recognized collection of photographs now resides at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. This beautifully produced, coffee-table book contains 250 of his most stunning images, which capture the spirit of a bygone era. These are accompanied by Thesiger's own recollections, his vivid prose expressing a romantic but austere vision. ...