Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species a total of 337
- all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field
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What is unique about Richard Nortons book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors & also a field guide to locating preparing & analysing meteorites. In addition to giving the reader information about observing techniques for meteors this book also provides a fully detailed account of the types of meteorites how & where to find them how to prepare & analyse them. The book provides everything the amateur astronomer (or geologist!) needs to know about meteors & meteorites. It is thus the only complete book on the subject available at present. ...

This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick accurate & easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours & symbols it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species & a calendar wheel which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found. ...

This handy & comprehensive guide is the essential companion to bird-watching for use in the field or at home. The guide features 500 species of birds found in Britain & also

Includes:: Europes resident birds & regular migrants & key vagrants from North America & Asia. Background information on bird structure & topography fieldcraft habitats bird orders & families is provided & each species entry

Includes:: at least one full-colour illustration beautifully presented by leading bird artists & a full yet concise species description plus other details e.g. habitat voice length wingspan & behavioural characteristics. A glossary of technical terms is included & there is an index of English & Latin names. The guide also

Includes:: 10 species comparison spreads to aid identification of harder to spot species & advice on the best times & places to view the more secretive or rarer birds.





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Ghana is one of the safest & most accessible countries in Western Africa & is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa which have been recomposed into a new set of plates with new text & maps specific to Ghana. The result is a compact & up-to-date guide to all the birds of Ghana. ...

This new field guide uses all of the plates from Birds of Western Africa with a concise authoritative text on facing pages to create a conveniently-sized lightweight field reference covering all 1285 species found in the region. The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour plates. A number of new images have been painted for this new field guide & several of the plates have been replaced. This is the first comprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region & will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered. Birds of Western Africa (Helm 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all species of this region which comprises all countries from Senegal & southern Mauritania east to Chad & the Central African Republic & south to Congo. ...

This field guide covers the avifauna of western North America using detailed artworks maps & text. Lighter than the original North American Bird Guide the book is designed to be suitable for regular field use & has a fully integrated format allowing quick & easy reference."" ...

This guide is unique in its approach to identification. It means that you can first look at the track or sign & then by means of keys to determine the animal group or species responsible for what you see. The keys refer you to detailed descriptions & illustrations. The guide is arranged to enable quick identification. ...

The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s yet little has been done to halt it. The threat if we fail is nothing less than catastrophe
- the flooding of coastal communities the extinction of species & entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know & what we refuse to know Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America interviewing researchers environmentalists & traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically altered by climate change.
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Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere grey & beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it Esther Woolfson examines the elements
- geographic atmospheric & environmental
- which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life house garden & city she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds
- gulls starlings pigeons sparrows & others; the rats & squirrels; the spiders & the insects. In beautiful absorbing prose Woolfson describes the seasons the streets & the quiet places of her city over the course of a year which begins with the exceptional cold & snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world urban & non-urban wildlife the values we place on the lives of individual species & the ways in which man & creature live together in cities.


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