This compendium of adventures features the best wild places to visit in the south west of Engl&, covering Devon, Cornwall, Somerset & Dorset, including ideas for local food & accommodation. Explore hidden gems, from the swimming rivers, secret beaches & lost ruins of Cornwall & Somerset, to the ancient woods & meadows of Devon & Dorset. Featuring inspiring photography & travel writing, this book will provide a wide choice for outdoors lovers offering ideas for various adventures, from wild swimming, canoeing & camping, & exploring ancient woodlands, lost ruins & hidden castle to picturesque sunset hill forts & night walks as well as campfire campsites, tree houses & hideaways places to stay. If you are dreaming of a summer spent discovering ancient forests & swimming in peaceful rivers, wild camping & savouring the very best artisanal food, the Wild Guide will help you to find just the perfect spot for amazing weekends! ...

Imagine a summer spent swimming in mountain waterfalls, exploring lost ruins & caverns, & camping in ancient forests. In this explorer`s compendium you will discover the most exciting & lesser-known places to visit in the Lake District & Yorkshire Dales, with magical places to stay & where to find the very best local & artisan food, straight from the farm or field. Featuring stunning photography & engaging travel writing, this is the perfect book for families seeking new adventures off the beaten track, or explorers dreaming up their ultimate weekend escape. New from the award-winning Wild Guide series, with over 750 secret adventures, hidden places & wild weekend escapes. Taking you to places no other guidebook reaches. Wild swims, waterfalls, river pools & hidden tarns Scrambles, gorge walks & gills Secret beaches & islands Lesser-known peaks & extraordinary rock formations Giant caverns & caves Lost ruins, follies & sacred wells Meadows, ancient forests & amazing wildlife Local food producers, micro-breweries, inns & farm shops Bothies, gypsy caravans, wild camps & campfire campsites Ancient rock art, sacred circles & the Stonehenge of the north ...

The best-selling Wild Guide series travels to Norway, Sweden, Iceland & Denmark to explore its incredible hidden places. Spectacular photography guides the reader to over 800 wild adventures. Including wild swimming, canoe camping, secret beaches & places to forage, eat & stay. ...

Wild Guide Scotland is a compendium of hidden places,  outdoor adventures,  local/artisanal food & inspiring places to stay featuring hundreds of ideas for the perfect adventure in the wilds & wonderlands of Scotl&. Discover magical mountains & secret glens with shimmering lochs & hidden waterfalls, perfect for a summer swim. Explore lost ruins & castles, watch sea-bird colonies on dramatic cliffs or walk barefoot on white-sand beaches lapped by turquoise waters. Wild camp in flower-covered dunes & retreat to ancient inns with roaring fires & even warmer welcomes. In this inspiring compendium you will find the best of Scotland’s unspoiled Highlands & Islands. Featuring stunning photography & engaging travel writing, this is the perfect guide for those seeking a wild adventure. ...

This compendium of adventures features the best wild places to visit in Southern & Eastern Engl&, including ideas for local food & accommodation. Explore hidden gems, from the swimming rivers, secret beaches & lost ruins of Norfolk & Suffolk, to the ancient woods, meadows & orchards of Kent & Sussex. Featuring inspiring photography & travel writing, this book will provide a wide choice for outdoors lovers offering ideas for various adventures, from wild swimming, canoeing & camping, & exploring ancient woodlands, lost ruins & hidden castle to picturesque sunset hill forts & night walks as well as campfire campsites, tree houses & hideaways places to stay. If you are dreaming of a summer spent discovering ancient forests & swimming in peaceful rivers, wild camping & savouring the very best artisanal food, the Wild Guide will help you to find just the perfect spot for amazing weekends! ...

The village of Mark on the Somerset Levels is a watery wonderl&, rich in wildlife: rooks & roe deer; sparrows & snowdrops; buzzards, badgers & butterflies; the iconic brown hare & the spectacular hummingbird hawk-moth. As the year unfolds, Stephen Moss witnesses the landscape as it passes from deep snow to spring blossom, through the heat haze of summer to the chill winds of autumn; from the first hazel catkins to the swallows returning from Africa; from the sounds of the dawn chorus to the nocturnal mysteries of moths. ” Wild Hares & Hummingbirds” is both the story of a small corner of the West Country & a celebration of the natural world. ...

Naturalist & author Stephen Moss lives in one of the longest villages in England
- Mark, on the Somerset Levels. This watery wonderland
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Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-&-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in ” Wild Hope”, & he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation to prove it. This tragedy is still avoidable, & there are many reasons for hope if we find inspiration in stories of effective environmental recovery. ” Wild Hope” is organized geographically, with each chapter taking readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation`s heroes & foot soldiers
- & to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work on our hungry & crowded planet. The journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers & exceptionally tolerant villagers have together helped bring Indian rhinos back from the brink of extinction. In the pine forests of the Carolinas, we learn why plantation owners came to resent rare woodpeckers
- & what persuaded them to change their minds. In South Africa, Balmford investigates how invading alien plants have been drinking the country dry, & how the Southern Hemisphere`s biggest conservation program is now simultaneously restoring the rivers, saving species, & creating tens of thousands of jobs. The conservation problems Balmford encounters are as diverse as the people & their actions, but together they offer common themes & specific lessons on how to win the battle of conservation
- & the one essential ingredient, Balmford shows, is most definitely hope. ” Wild Hope” is a clear-eyed view of the difficulties & challenges of conservation, offering innovative solutions & powerful stories. A global tour of people & programs working for the planet, ” Wild Hope” is an emboldening green journey.


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Wild Hope takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation`s heroes & foot soldiers
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Man started taming horses about 5000 years ago. At the time the familiar modern type had not yet developed: it is the result of millennia of human involvement. Of the few original variants of the original species, a descendant still survives: a population of about 1500 horses live wild, free & untamed on the Dzungarian steppes of deep Central Asia. This Mongolian horse is the only true subspecies of wild horse remaining on Earth: others, more or less lucky survivors that we meet in Asia, in South America & in North America, are masterless or undomesticated horses of modern stock living in the wild. Nonetheless, both populations are symbols of freedom, universal testimonials of the pleasure of running wild; they are exhilarating beauty of unharnessed movement. A small band of dedicated, specialist photographers have for many years tracked wild horses in the farthest reaches of the world, observing & photographing them. They have taken pictures of great beauty that portray horses of the unbound prairies, grazing, galloping, clashing & mating, driven by instinct & unrestrained by the hand of man. This book is a tribute to humankind's most valued friend, free at last to be the wonderful
- & even occasionally wild
- creature that millions of years of evolution have created.

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