This compendium of adventures features the best wild places to visit in Devon Cornwall Somerset & Dorset with luscious places to eat & stay & ideas for weekend itineraries. The best secret beaches & wild swimming locations Amazing ancient woodlands & wildlife spectacles Top picnic places & wild flower meadows Lost ruins hidden castles & sacred stones Caverns caves grottoes & follies Sunset hillforts night walks & campfire camping Treehouses yurts & gypsy caravans Best artisanal food seasonal eating & traditional pubs Featuring stunning photos & engaging travel writing this is the perfect book for those seeking new adventures with the family or dreaming up the ultimate romantic weekend escape. ...

The village of Mark on the Somerset Levels is a watery wonderland 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." ...

Maya Jackson doesn't sleep with strangers. Until the night grief sent her to the nearest bar & into the arms of the most explosive lover she's ever had. Six months later the dedicated arson investigator is coming face to face with him again. Gorgeous sexy Logan Cain. Her biggest mistake. Now her number-one suspect in a string of deadly wildfires. As leader of an elite fire-fighting crew in Tahoe Logan won't back down from a blaze
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Emilie Carles was born in 1900 in south eastern France. Against the odds she trained as a teacher & pursued this career alongside farming & bringing up a family. An ardent pacifist all her life in later years she became a fierce environmental campaigner & successfully protected her home the idyllic Claree valley from the hands of developers. Emilie Carles enchanting autobiography tells of a world that has largely disappeared. She captures the comedy & ferocious pride of rural life with an ebullience & wit which are quite irresistible. ...

Movie director Thomas Lyon came to Newmarket to rake the ashes of an old Jockey Club scandal for a new Hollywood film. Too late he found himself listening to a blacksmiths dying confession. Found himself watching as the past came violently back to life. Capturing the shockwaves over one womans macabre death nearly thirty years before is drama. But a frenzied knife attack on the set of Unstable Times is definitely attempted murder. Who stood to gain from the threats? Between truth & shadowy fiction Thomas Lyon already knew too much. Following the real story could mean the difference between life & death. His own.. . Still the best bet for a winning read Mail on Sunday A marvellous storyteller & an immaculate craftsman Daily Mail ...

Say the word Italy & a scene lights up in the mind: a cafe table in St Mark's Square perhaps a Renaissance fresco a Tuscan villa on a hilltop. There are many books about these things. In Wild Italy Tim Jepson takes a different tack leaving the well-worn tourist haunts behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover he works his way down thigh & shin following the line of the Apennines locating the pressure points between continental & peninsular Italy pinching to see where the prosperous north gives way to the Mediterranean south looking for those last innocent stretches of littoral down one side & up the other where the bathers have not set up their parasols. Having lived in Rome & trekked the entire peninsula he knows the secret places that are as oxygen to a suffocating man after the murderous drive through the suburbs of Milan or Naples. He has picked out the loveliest spots in Sicily & Sardinia & plotted the last few pinpricks of Italian territory the scattered islands off the Tunisian coast which are some of the most isolated & primitive places in Europe. As well as having an extensive knowledge of wild places he also has the ability to write about them with passion. ' One view of a cypress tree or stone farm-house & we are entranced ' he writes 'overcome by that longing for the warm south which Icelanders describe nicely as the need for figs".'" ...

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As he ducked he heard the familiar sound like a giant ripping heavyweight canvas an automatic weapon throwing bullets at a cyclic rate of almost two thousand rounds a minute & the bullets tore into the side of the Maserati beating in the metal with an ear-numbing clangour while glass exploded in upon Peter like the glittering spray as a storm-driven waves strikes a rock. Glass chips pelted across his back & stung his cheek & the back of his neck. They sparkled like a diamond tiara in his hair. The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanizes anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage -- if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy.. . ...

Walking around his Herefordshire farm one October John Lewis-Stempel saw a trout flash in the brook mushrooms sprinkle the fields a squirrel eat hazelnuts & thought: Wouldnt it be wonderful if one could live just on what Nature provided for free? The Wild Life" is Johns account of twelve months eating only food shot caught or foraged from the fields hedges copse & brook of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop & nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done? John takes the reader on a Thoreau-esque journey through a landscape that is true England as he uncovers the ancient past of his five-hundred-year-old farm & the startling symmetries between his life now & that of the farms peasant founders. Lyrical observant & sometimes mordantly funny " The Wild Life" is an extraordinary celebration of our natural heritage. & a testament to the importance of getting back to ones roots
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Even as a young child Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Expressed in a variety of ways from keeping faintly rotting animal parts in his underwear drawer (as a 10-year-old) to making several hundred films about wildlife his enduring interest in all things wild & free has been a way of rather than a part of his life. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah charged at by rhinos & elephants & defecated upon by a long list of birds & other animals may sound like hell to some. But these along with countless other experiences alongside all things furry scaly slimy & feathery have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to relive & retell. With his professional life starting aged ten acting in a television drama called The Fox (for which he looked after an orphaned fox for two years at home) through projects such as Planet Earth Blue Planet Springwatch Autumnwatch & Big Cat Diary to name just a few Simon King has travelled to every continent & lived in extreme conditions from remote desert to Arctic & Antarctic wilderness. With characteristic honesty & charm Simon King weaves his animal stories amongst encounters with extraordinary people & astonishing places to give us a memoir that will delight readers. ...