Encounters with spectacular birds all over the world and birding adventures to remote, magical locations. Why life-lists, rarities, questions about 'what is a species?' and other such things matter so much to the birder, including their origins in the long human story of our love of birds. Considers what, if anything, might need to change in birders' attitudes, approach and practices faced with the extinction and biodiversity crisis.
Stresses the importance of birds to people resulting in more attention and kindness to birds. The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War. Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe.
Stresses the importance of birds to people resulting in more attention and kindness to birds. The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War. Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe.
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Whittles Publishing is a well-established publishing company based in the beautiful far north of Scotland. We are internationally renowned for producing high-quality academic and professional titles, as well as a wide range of excellent non-fiction books, many of which are now available as ebooks. We are proud to compete on a global scale whilst keeping our customers and authors at the heart of everything we do.
From imprisonment in the notorious Kozelsk prison to the forced labour c. more. A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750. It pulls together the various strands that influenced the development of the North West Highlands after the disastrous risings and charts the government-backed attempts at esta.
A professional biologist with wide experience of working both in the UK and overseas, Rory Putman takes us with him on working trips to Iceland, East Africa, Nigeria and Indonesia, introducing us to the countries and their people, their natural history. Carrifran Wildwood was the brainchild of local people who mourned the lack of natural habitats and decided to act.
The Golden Eagle is generally thought to be a well-known and well-documented species. However, much of the available literature is not necessarily in a form that can readily be used in the field. In fact, although much existing information about Golden Eagles has little supporting evidence it is.
Winner of the Birds Illustrated Conservation/Monographs/Science category Ospreys are one of our best known and best loved birds and the name Roy Dennis is not only synonymous with the successful return of the osprey to Scotland, but is also renowned for his international work with a variety of sp.This is a much-needed update on a pioneering reintroduction project and its much-celebrated success.
Winner of the Birds Illustrated Conservation/Monographs/Science category Ospreys are one of our best known and best loved birds and the name Roy Dennis is not only synonymous with the successful return of the osprey to Scotland, but is also renowned for his international work with a variety of sp.This is a much-needed update on a pioneering reintroduction project and its much-celebrated success.
Whilst on duty in the cramped confines of Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, Ian Cassells took to walking circuits round the lighthouse station for exercise (twelve laps to the mile). With this background, when the Northern Lighthouse Board celebrated its Bicentenary in 1986, he made the suggestion that in c. more.
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