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Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola

Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola

Sean Dooley

By the author of Big Twitch. This is a humorous guide to the secret world of birdwatching. 265 pages. More details...

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Arrivals and Rivals: a duel for the winning bird

Arrivals and Rivals: a duel for the winning bird

Adrian M. Riley

New Edition. This book is all about determination, 'true grit' and the obsession to become the top year-lister in the British Isles. 165 pages. More details...

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Barley Bird: Notes on a Suffolk Nightingale

Barley Bird: Notes on a Suffolk Nightingale

Richard Mabey

80 pages. More details...

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Bearded Tit

Bearded Tit

Rory McGrath

This is Rory's story of his life among birds, which is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching. 350 pages. More details...

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Beguiled by Birds - Ian Wallace on British Birdwatching

Beguiled by Birds - Ian Wallace on British Birdwatching

DIM Wallace

Part history, part life story, this book describes the course of British birdwatching, particularly over the last 125 years. It is interspersed with numerous (and sometimes controversial) anecdotes which enhance the appeal of Ian's engaging and entertaining text.

"It makes you want to bring Ian home, feed him, open a bottle of something - preferably Scottish in origin - wind him up and then sit back as he regales you with stories all night."

 - Gordon Hamlett, Bird Watching

304 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 25.2 x 18.8 cm Hardback £29.99 £26.99

Big Twitch

Big Twitch

Sean Dooley

A truly entertaining story of one man's attempt to see over 700 Australian species in one year. 322 pages. More details...

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Bill Oddie's Gripping Yarns

Bill Oddie's Gripping Yarns

Bill Oddie

Read the uncut versions of Bill Oddie's tall tales and side-splitting yarns. 208 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 21.6 x 13.5 cm Softback £8.99

Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

Bill Oddie

Back in print! This scurrilous little volume received rave reviews on first publication and has become a "classic" and a collector's item. The first book to tell the truth about the obsession that is birding. 150 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm Softback £6.99

Binoculars and people

Binoculars and people

Brin Best

A highly illustrated account of the social history of binoculars. 205 pages.

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Softback £25.00 £21.99

The Bird Collectors

The Bird Collectors

Barbara & Richard Mearns

Examines the history and uses of bird skin collections and the many colourful explorers involved in their development. 490 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 24.2 x 16.7 cm Hardback £40.00

Bird in the Bush

Bird in the Bush

Stephen Moss

A social history of birdwatching. The first book to trace the history and development of this singular pastime, on both sides of the Atlantic. 375 pages. More details...

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Birders - Tales of a Tribe

Birders - Tales of a Tribe

Mark Cocker

The story of the birding community, its characters, rules and adventures - often hilariously funny. 230 pages. More details...

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Birding from the Hip

Birding from the Hip

Anthony McGeehan

A collection of entertaining, gloriously funny stories about the obsession that is birding. More details...

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Birding on Borrowed Time

Birding on Borrowed Time

Phoebe Snetsinger

These posthumously published memoirs chronicle the birding adventures of the then world's all-time top lister (over 8400 species). The book is also a profoundly moving human document, as it details how the author's obsession with birds became a way of coping with terminal illness. 307 pages.

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Softback £24.50 £19.50

 

Birdscapes

Jeremy Mynott

Birds in Our Imagination and Experience.

A thoroughly entertaining birder's bedside book, brimming with bird lore and anecdote. More details...

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Birdwatchingwatching

Birdwatchingwatching

Alex Horne

In a bid to understand the secret birding fraternity, Alex Horne challenges his dad to a year of competitive (h)ornithology. Would he emerge unscathed? Or would he too become a birder?

This is a hilarious true story about fathers and sons, the birds (not the bees), and the eccentricities of two very different species. 378 pages.

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Blokes and Birds

Blokes and Birds

Stephen Moss

A humorous look at 40 British and Irish birders and their exploits. 96 pages. More details...

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Special Places to Stay : British Hotels & Inns

Tom Bell, ed.

Over 320 impressive places to stay, all run with real flair. 384 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 22 x 13 x 1.9 cm Softback £14.99

A Brush with Nature

A Brush with Nature

Richard Mabey

25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature. The definitive collection of Richard Mabey's columns written especially for BBC Wildlife Magazine over 25 years. 244 pages. More details...

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Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies

Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies

Richard Hamblyn

144 pages. More details...

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Conservation: A Beginner's Guide

Paul Jepson & Richard Ladle

208 pages. More details...

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Crow Country

Crow Country

Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker's brilliant description of his journeys in search of crows and ravens, birds that obsessed him and changed his life for ever. 224 pages. More details...

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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Richard Fortey

Behind the public façade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of unseen galleries, locked doors, priceless specimens and hidden lives.This is a witty, affectionate account of just such a fascinating world. 352 pages.

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(LxWxD) 19.6 x 13.4 x 3 cm Softback £8.99

 

Flights of Fancy

Peter Tate

An endlessly browsable guide to the fascinating stories and bizarre superstitions that surround some of the world's best-loved birds. 180 pages.

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Softback £7.99 £7.19

 

The Great Naturalists

Edited by Robert Huxley

The stories of nearly 40 great pioneers from all over Europe and America take us from Classical times to the end of the 19th century, when natural history changed from an amateur pursuit to the specialized profession we know today. 304 pages. More details...

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Guardian Spirit of the East Bank

Guardian Spirit of the East Bank

Moss Taylor

More than just a biography of the acclaimed bird artist and field ornithologist Richard Richardson, as it is lavishly illustrated with examples of his watercolours and line drawings. 232 pages. More details...

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The History of Ornithology

The History of Ornithology

Valerie Chansigaud

A clear, chronological approach to the subject. The lively text is enhanced by over 250 illustrations of birds and the ornithologists who have studied them. 239 pages.

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(LxW) 22.5 x 15.5 cm Hardback £17.99 £15.99

How to be Wild

How to be Wild

Simon Barnes

We are all wild. It's just that civilisation keeps getting in the way. In this book Simon Barnes takes us on a journey through a year, from one raucous spring to the next, helping us to realise the essential truth: that by enjoying the wild world our own lives become richer and more satisfying. 282 pages.

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Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

Olivia Gentile

Fascinating biography of Phoebe Snetsinger and her legendary quest to be the first birder to see 8,000 species. 345 pages.

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Life Stories

Life Stories

David Attenborough

224 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 25.4 x 20 x 2.9 cm Hardback £20.00 £14.99

The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud

The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud

Brian Garfield

Entertaining and thoroughly researched read about a flamboyant figure. 354 pages. More details...

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My Family & 50 other Animals

My Family & 50 other Animals

Dominic Couzens

Dominic Couzens, his wife and children scour the length and breadth of the British Isles in search of everything from Weasels and Stoats to Edible Dormice, Killer Whales and Wallabies. 272 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 24 x 16 x 2.6 cm Hardback £17.99 £15.99

The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries

The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries

J A Baker, Introduction by Mark Cocker and Diary Edited by John Fanshawe

Such luminaries as Richard Mabey and Andrew Motion have cited this as one of the most important books in 20th Century nature writing. 416 pages. More details...

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The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

Edited by Simon Armitage & Tim Dee

384 pages. More details...

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Hardback £25.00 £19.99

Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature

Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature

Andrew Lack

A celebration of the life of the robin, based on the classic Robin Redbreast by the author's father David Lack, published in 1950. The text is illustrated, including original cartoons by Euan Dunn. With a foreword by Richard Mabey. 294 pages.

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Running Sky

Running Sky

Tim Dee

An extraordinary, inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds 272 pages.

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Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

James Jobling

A major ornithological reference, giving the derivation and meaning of all valid scientific bird names. Makes fascinating reading. 432 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 23.4 x 15.6 cm Hardback £40.00 £34.99

 

Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society

Bill Bryson Ed.

496 pages. More details...

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A Single Swallow

A Single Swallow

Horatio Clare

Combines the best of travel and nature writing as one man follows the migration of the swallow on the epic journey from South Africa to South Wales. 327 pages.

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A Sky Full of Starlings

A Sky Full of Starlings

Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss began on 1 January 2007 to chronicle each species of bird as he saw it for the first time throughout the year. He writes about his birdwatching episodes in his usual good-humoured style. 192 pages. More details...

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Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher

Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher

Stuart Winter

208 pages More details...

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Tales of a Low-Rent Birder

Tales of a Low-Rent Birder

P Dunne

A collection of 19 essays illustrated by David Sibley. 176 pages.

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This Birding Life

This Birding Life

Stephen Moss

Highly readable - a selection of extracts from the popular Birdwatch column in the Guardian. 216 pages.

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A Tiger in the Sand

A Tiger in the Sand

Mark Cocker

Selected Writings on Nature from the author of Birders - Tales of a Tribe and Birds Britannica. 192 pages. More details...

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John Kirk Townsend - Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals

John Kirk Townsend - Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals

Barbara & Richard Mearns

This is the first in-depth biography of Townsend, an ornithologist from Philadelphia who crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River in 1834 and made two visits to the Hawaiian Islands. He returned home with a great haul of bird and mammal specimens used by J.J. Audubon in his Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds.

Barbara and Richard Mearns examine Townsend's Quaker upbringing, track him on his journey westwards, provide a modern zoological commentary on his discoveries, trace his troubled career and discuss his association with Audubon and the major contribution that Townsend made to his famous works.

The book is essential reading for those with an interest in early Western travels and the Oregon Trail, the wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, or the history of birding. 389 pages. More details...

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UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane

UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane

James Hanlon

An anecdotal, humorous and highly personal account of the author's quest to see 500 bird species in the UK before his 30th birthday. 16 colour plates of photos and illustrations. 127 pages. More details...

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Wesley - The Story of a Remarkable Owl

Wesley - The Story of a Remarkable Owl

Stacey O'Brien

When biologist Stacey O'Brien rescued a 4-day-old baby barn owl, little did she know the encounter would turn into an astonishing 19-year love affair. 230 pages.

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While Flocks Last

Charlie Elder

Charlie Elder writes with humour as he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see our 40 key species in decline and meet the enthusiasts trying to save them. 288 pages. More details...

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Whose Bird? Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds

Whose Bird? Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds

Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins

Potted biographies of every individual who has given his or her name to a species of bird. 400 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 21.6 x 13.5 cm Softback £17.99

Wild Life

Wild Life

Simon King

Amazing Animals, Extraordinary People, Astonishing Places 312 pages. More details...

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Sustainable & Green Living

 

100 Animals to see before they die

Nick Garbutt

144 pages. More details...

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Hardback £16.99 £13.99

 

The Big Earth Book

James Bruges

We all know the Earth is in crisis. . This book explores environmental, economic and social ideas to save our planet. 288 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 26.2 x 19.6 x 1.9 cm Softback £12.99

 

Rough Guide to Climate Change

Robert Henson

The complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. 374 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.8 x 13.1 x 2 cm Softback £10.99

 

Special Places to Stay: Green Europe

Kate Shepherd, ed.

Discover special places that go the extra mile to provide responsible holidays. 224 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 22 x 13 x 1.5 cm Softback £11.99

The Rough Guide to Green Living

The Rough Guide to Green Living

Duncan Clark

A fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life. 336 pages. More details...

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Book of Rubbish Ideas

Tracey Smith

Useful tips to changing the way you handle your rubbish. 144 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.1 cm Softback £6.99

You can save the planet

You can save the planet

Rich Hough

A practical guide to saving the planet.

  • all the facts on important issues from Carbon footprints to Fairtrade & food miles
  • practical advice on making a difference every day
  • includes a six-month ethical living diary

176 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 21 x 14.8 cm Softback £8.99

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Other non-fiction

The Biggest Twitch: around the world in 4000 birds

The Biggest Twitch: around the world in 4000 birds

Alan Davies & Ruth Miller

Available from 4 August 2010. 320 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 19.8 x 12.9 cm Softback £12.99 £9.99

 

GEM SAS Survival Guide

Published by HarperCollins

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Books and Naturalists

Books and Naturalists

David Allen

New Naturalist series 112. Explores the world of nature publishing through the course of history, from its very early days in the dawn of publishing, through various significant new discoveries and into the 21st Century. 320 pages. More details...

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Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World

Peter Miller

Available from 5 August 2010. A fascinating lesson in how much we still have to learn from nature. 304 pages More details...

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Softback due Jan 2011 £8.99 £7.99

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