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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 43 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom by Erica Berry
    Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom - by Erica Berry

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781838854638 | ISBN 10: 1838854630

    An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf.  A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 FOR FINANCIAL TIMES, TIME, VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUM ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian
    Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing - by Lev Parikian

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967032 | ISBN 10: 178396703x

    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023*   ‘This book soars… Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.’ Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.   This is the miracle of flight as you’ve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain by Sophie Pavelle
    Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain - by Sophie Pavelle

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472986238 | ISBN 10: 1472986237

    WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION AND LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION.   'Enchanting… a joy to read.' JOANNA LUMLEY 'Vibrant and vital.' CHRIS PACKHAM 'Forget Me Not is a tonic. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
    Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence - by James Bridle

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141994260 | ISBN 10: 0141994266

    'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times   'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno   'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
    The Lost Rainforests of Britain - by Guy Shrubsole

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008527990 | ISBN 10: 0008527997

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023  The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year  As seen on Countryfile  ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times  Shor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (Editor)
    Nature Tales for Winter Nights - by Nancy Campbell (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967421 | ISBN 10: 1783967420

    From the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night.  As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoratio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siege by Charles Foster
    Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siege - by Charles Foster

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529381 | ISBN 10: 0857529382

    'Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read' Observer   'Charles Foster is the most original voice in nature writing today - funny, urgent, poetic, philosophical and deeply moving' Patrick Barkham   'Utterly exhilar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Much Ado About Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain
    Much Ado About Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain's Rare and Remarkable Moths - by James Lowen

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472966988 | ISBN 10: 1472966988

    James Lowen narrates a year-long quest to see Britain's rarest and more remarkable moths. Although mostly unseen by us, moths are everywhere. And their capacity to delight astounds.  Inspired by a revelatory encounter with a Poplar Hawk-moth - a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
    Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World - by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008402754 | ISBN 10: 0008402752

    The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects.   Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma Mitchell
    The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary - by Emma Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789292909 | ISBN 10: 1789292905

    HE SUNDAY TIMES BESTESELLER  Emma Mitchell's richly illustrated and evocative diary – as seen on the BBC's Springwatch – records her nature finds over the course of a year and shows how being in the wild benefits our mental and physical wellb ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nature of Summer by Jim Crumley
    The Nature of Summer - by Jim Crumley

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913393113 | ISBN 10: 1913393119

    In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs heartlands is burgeoning freely, as though there is one long midsummer's eve, nothing reserved. For our ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Scurry of Squirrels: Nurturing The Wild by Polly Pullar
    A Scurry of Squirrels: Nurturing The Wild - by Polly Pullar

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277042 | ISBN 10: 1780277040

    Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
    Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World
    Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places - by Jeremy Purseglove

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788161602 | ISBN 10: 1788161602

    From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin.   Working with Nature is the story of a life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
    Underland: A Deep Time Journey - by Robert Macfarlane

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141030579 | ISBN 10: 0141030577

    The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.   In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue ... more

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  • Cover image of book 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox
    21st-Century Yokel - by Tom Cox

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527397 | ISBN 10: 1783527390

    A nature book, but not quite like any you’ll have read before.  21st-Century Yokel is the book that, as someone entrenched in a love of the countryside, I’ve been waiting a decade to write - maybe longer. It’s not quite a nature book, not q ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Squirrel Book by Jane Russ
    The Red Squirrel Book - by Jane Russ

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912654178 | ISBN 10: 1912654172

    A must-have for all British nature lovers, The Red Squirrel Book is a stunning compendium of fact and photography.   This compact and accessible guide introduces the reader to these instantly recognisable fixtures of British wildlife and documents ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way of the Hare by Marianne Taylor
    The Way of the Hare - by Marianne Taylor

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472942265 | ISBN 10: 1472942264

    "Taylor's book is so replete with leporine lore, so completely absorbed with the lives and (often grisly) deaths of our hares that you can't help but see the creatures with new eyes."(Alex Preston, The Guardian) To the people of rural Britain, har ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
    The Secret Life of Cows - by Rosamund Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571345793 | ISBN 10: 0571345794

    ****A Sunday Times bestseller*** ***A Times Book of the Year 2017***  WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT "A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows."(James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life) Cows are as varied as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Book: Outdoor Activities to Unleash Your Inner Child by David Scarfe
    The Wild Book: Outdoor Activities to Unleash Your Inner Child - by David Scarfe

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409172727 | ISBN 10: 1409172724

    Fun, easy-to-do outdoor activities to unleash your inner child.   Let a little wildness in. Adventure is closer than you think. A lavishly illustrated celebration of the wonders that await in the outside world; the perfect gift for fans of Nor ... more

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  • Cover image of book What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
    What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins - by Jonathan Balcombe

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072092 | ISBN 10: 1786072092

    An Observer Book of the Year 2017 A Sunday Times must read A New York Times Bestseller   Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - ‘Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down to the River and Up to the Trees: Discover the Hidden Nature on Your Doorstep by Sue Belfrage
    Down to the River and Up to the Trees: Discover the Hidden Nature on Your Doorstep - by Sue Belfrage

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008255268 | ISBN 10: 0008255261

    In a stressful, chaotic world, many of us are turning to nature for a sense of serenity and happiness.  While the idea of the wild outdoors is enticing, though, our busy lives and our location can cause us to become detached from nature. Down t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
    The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland - by John Lewis-Stempel

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784160746 | ISBN 10: 1784160741

    The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017   Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain
    Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife - by Stephen Moss

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099581635 | ISBN 10: 0099581639

    Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can.   The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain’s wildlife is in trouble. It’s not just rare creatures that are vanishing, hares and hedgehogs, skylarks and water voles, even ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wildlife Photographer of the Year 26 by Rosamund Kidmund Cox
    Wildlife Photographer of the Year 26 - by Rosamund Kidmund Cox

    £25.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780565093952 | ISBN 10: 0565093959

    For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence.   This powerful coll ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature
    The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation - by Fred Pearce

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785780516 | ISBN 10: 1785780514

    Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine ‘natural’ ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forces of Nature by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen
    Forces of Nature - by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

    £25.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780007488827 | ISBN 10: 0007488823

    A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.  What is motion? Why is every snowflake different? Why is life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Field Notes from the Edge by Paul Evans
    Field Notes from the Edge - by Paul Evans

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846044564 | ISBN 10: 1846044561

    In Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature – such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves – where one wilderness is on the ver ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes
    Ten Million Aliens - by Simon Barnes

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780722436 | ISBN 10: 1780722435

    This is the momentous story of the millions of species - sometimes unimaginably strange - that make up the animal kingdom.   Humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid roti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau
    Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods - by Richard B. Primack

    £10.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780226272290 | ISBN 10: 022627229x

    In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians by Richard Kerridge
    Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians - by Richard Kerridge

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099581390 | ISBN 10: 0099581396

    Can we know what it feels like to be a toad? Or a lizard? Join Richard Kerridge on the hunt for Britain’s reptiles and amphibians and realise the potential of puddles and ditches everywhere.  As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild c ... more

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  • Cover image of book H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
    H is for Hawk - by Helen Macdonald

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099575450 | ISBN 10: 0099575450

    'In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.'  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Rhinos by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
    The Last Rhinos - by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447203803 | ISBN 10: 1447203801

    Lawrence Anthony's South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George.   Described as 'the Indiana Jones of conservation', when one of his rhinos was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
    Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach - by Jean Sprackland

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099532439 | ISBN 10: 0099532433

    An insightful and lyrical account of a year on one beach - part natural history, part meditation, part travelogue.  This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Town by Mike Dilger
    Wild Town - by Mike Dilger

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408173909 | ISBN 10: 1408173905

    Wild Town takes you on an amazing journey through the secret world of wildlife in Britain's towns and cities.   With eye-catching photography, fascinating facts, and details on the locals as well as some unexpected visitors, this is the ultim ... more

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  • Cover image of book Branches: Nature
    Branches: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts - by Philip Ball

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199604883 | ISBN 10: 0199604886

    As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.  Many patterns ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
    A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger - by Colin Elford

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141043180 | ISBN 10: 0141043180

    Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods.   From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and the ... more

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  • Cover image of book At the Water
    At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild - by John Lister-Kaye

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674050 | ISBN 10: 1847674054

    For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter – a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Wolf by Jim Crumley
    The Last Wolf - by Jim Crumley

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781841588476 | ISBN 10: 1841588474

    In The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland – past, present and future – and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact. Bringing to bear a lifetime’s immersion in his native lan ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents by Érik Orsenna
    A Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents - by Érik Orsenna

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906598747 | ISBN 10: 1906598746

    Érik Orsenna’s passion and concern for the future of the Gulf Stream was the motivation behind this book. He raises the questions: What is the Gulf Stream? Is it a simple river passing through the Atlantic? Where does it start and where does it end?& ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology by Edited by Jane Macnamee
    In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology - by Edited by Jane Macnamee

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781870206969 | ISBN 10: 1870206967

    Mountaineers, amblers, star-gazers, river-watchers, cavers, climbers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists - all these writers explore the elemental forces of the Welsh landscapes which have shaped their lives.  They all share a deep, personal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolves; Behavior, Ecology and Conservation. by L. David Mech & Luigi Boitani
    Wolves; Behavior, Ecology and Conservation. - by L. David Mech & Luigi Boitani

    £22.50   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780226516974 | ISBN 10: 0226516970

    Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bear Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife by Keltie Thomas
    Bear Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife - by Keltie Thomas

    £6.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781552979211 | ISBN 10: 1552979210

    Bears have been respected and admired yet also feared throughout their history. These mighty animals have virtually no predators except for humans and as people expand into bear country, the bears are being forced out of their natural habitats.  ... more

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