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VINNARE AV AUGUSTPRISET 2019 I DEN FACKLITTERÄRA KLASSEN Hur mycket kan man veta om en ål? Eller om en människa? "Ålevangeliet" är en bok om världens mest gåtfulla fisk. En fisk som gett upphov till ett alldeles eget mysterium inom naturvetenskape...

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Vacker naturskildring, inläst av Reine Brynolfsson. "Boken är lika vacker som dagen den skildrar. Bannerheds naturprosa präglas av stor närvaro och noggrann detaljrikedom..." - SvD Vad har kärrhöken i sikte när den kommer seglande över åkrarna en ...

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Två män i en gummibåt. Ett havsmonster i djupen under dem. När varje kvadratcentimeter av jordens yta går att skärskåda i närbild från satelliter finns det knappt några vita fläckar kvar på kartan för äventyrare och upptäcktsresande. Men det finns...

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Brought to you by Penguin. At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the other way, tipped my cap, said hello. The animals do not expect us humans to be abroad in the dark, which is their time,...

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Som ung man, efter att på nära håll ha bevittnat en legendarisk teaterbragd, lämnar Fredrik Sjöberg sitt arbete på Dramaten i Stockholm och bosätter sig på en ö i skärgården. Efter några år börjar han samla flugor. Blomflugor. Detta leder slutlige...

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Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into the life ...

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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the...

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Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017?The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far? Richard Shelton, Times Literary SupplementWhen Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern Eng...

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'Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our ...

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?Focuses a razor light on the plight of one of our most iconic birds. Inspirational!? Tim BirkheadCurlews are Britain?s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have ...

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Reissue of J. A. Baker?s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the fla...

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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, a...

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?An outstanding book? SpectatorThe story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth ? an English Hen Harrier ? which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation.?The sun was blood red as it broke the horizon and lit the com...

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?The story of ?invasive species? is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ? Fascinating? Daily TelegraphA unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands of years of arrivals...

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'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia...

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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearPeer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain''s rivers and streams.From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and qua...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022?A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ? Nicolson is unique as a writer ? I loved it? EDMUND DE WAALFew places are as familiar as the shore ? and few as full of mystery and surprise.How do san...

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A new edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth.Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018.Shortlisted for Futurebook of the ...

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''Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I''ve been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this book, I c...

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*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Extraordinary Insects is a joy' The Times A Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019 A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out ...

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?A lovely little book ? quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive? Sunday Times ?Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn''t stop reading it? Jeff VanderMeerWe?ve all seen the fox.A flash of his brushy tail disappearing between the gap of...

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Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild...

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The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, ...

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The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks wit...

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Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they r...

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'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' GeographicalAdventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosi...

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Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian.Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagno...

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Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution. They are older than trees, have survived five extinction events and are essential to maintaining balanced ocean ecosystems, but how much do we really know about...

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This beautifully illustrated overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity of our plant and animal life.Wild Isles is a celebration of the wildlife found on a relatively modest collection of islands positioned at a latitude...

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The RSPB?s Book of the SeasonThe distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and...

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