'Richly informative about the ways and whereabouts of every creature from the Siberian tit to the showshoe hare.' The Times (November 2006) 'It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of work that must have gone into this book. It is packed with well-researched information and deserves to be the ultimate Actic wildlife guide for a long time to come.' BBC Wildlife (February 2007) 'An attractive book [which] does provide a very good explanation of how the Arctic works as an ecosystem.' Birding World (June 2007) 'A very good book which will be hard to better.' IBIS (2007) 'A well-produced, accurate and attractive book, beautifully presented and illustrated, and giving excellent coverage of Arctic birds and mammals.' British Birds (August 2007)
Richard Sale is an ornithologist and photographer with great experience of the fauna and peoples of the polar regions. His previous books include To the Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration (Collins) and The Gyrfalcon (T & AD Poyser).