Homero Arisdjis
The eminent Mexican writer ("Eyes to See Otherwise", "1492 The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castille"), environmentalist and diplomat talks about his lifelong crusade to save the Monarch butterfly, which migrates every year from Canada to overwinter in Mexico's oyamel forests.
David Attenborough
The broadcaster reviews the techniques that have been used over the last century to bring natural history to the television screen.
Jenny Uglow
The biography of the C18th artist Thomas Bewick, whose miniature illustrations and woodcuts changed the way we view the natural world.
David Beerling
Why did plants evolve leaves? When and how did forests once grow on Antarctica? Beerling reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving and recording climatic change.
Jay Griffiths
The adventurer encounters cannibals, polar bears, Amazonian healers and sea gypsies in her extraordinary odyssey around geographical and mental wildernesses.
John Hare
A 100-day, 1500-mile journey with camels from Lake Chad to Tripoli accompanied by a Chinese scientist, a 77-year-old Kenyan rancher, warring tribesmen and Gaddafi’s secret police
Illustrated.
Chris Yates
A celebration of the joys of sitting on a riverbank with rod and line.
Austin J Stevens, Hannah Rothschild
Meet the intrepid South African wildlife photographer and his reptilian friends.
Charmed by Hannah Rothschild.
Robert Winston
Compared to the rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90% chance of creating a litter of up to 12 kittens, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK the average chance of conception is about 18% per month. The fertility expert examines the human condition.
John Julius Norwich
The history, culture, heroes and wonders of the Mediterranean world
Rosie Boycott, Charlotte Hollins, Peter Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Jane Clarke, Barbara Crowther
With 18% of us buying British food, thousands of farms have been lost and the countryside is endangered. Rosie Boycott talks to farmers Peter and Juliet Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Charlotte Hollins of Fordhall Farms, Jane Clarke, Meat buyer for Waitrose and Barbara Crowther of the Fairtrade Foundation about the Fair Trade for British Farmers campaign, and how we can help rural Britain by changing our food-shopping habits.
Graeme Gibson
Folktales, stories and excerpts from a naturalist's journal where creation myths, recipes, and the most stunning illustrations lace Gibson's own graceful and erudite essays telling of the pleasure, fear, confusion, or hope that birds inspire, and their imperiled place in nature.