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Wild About Britain – Holiday reads, travel and nature writing by award-winning journalist Brian Jackman. From Cornwall to Shetland, East Anglia to the Welsh Marches, an ‘extended love letter to the British Countryside’. Covering wildlife, wild places, fishing, sailing and how history has shaped the landscape. Foreword by Simon Barnes.
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals – Travel literature collection of tales of travelling with animals, both intentional and accidental. Includes stories from a mix of previously unpublished writers and old and modern favourites, from David Attenborough to Dion Leonard, Gerald Durrell, Isabella Bird and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Marsh Lions – Holiday reads and travel literature by Jonathan and Angela Scott featuring the Marsh lion pride and wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve. This book also includes new photos and updated news about the lions, details about BBC’s Big Cat Diary, conservation and natural history, stories of life and death on the African plains.
West with the Light biography – autobiography of Brian Jackman, one of the UK’s best loved travel and wildlife writers, from childhood memories of the Blitz to Fleet Street journalism and a life-long love affair with Africa. George Adamson, Jonathan Scott and Saba Douglas-Hamilton all feature.
Wild About Dorset – Holiday reads, travel and nature writing by award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman. A love letter to the wild animals, plants and rural life of West Dorset’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the author’s home for fifty years. Contains month-by-month coverage of nature, wild places, landscape, geology and culture.
We chat to seasoned travel writer Brian Jackman about his latest book, Wild about Britain.
No one forgets their first sight of one of the Big Five: an elephant, ears flapping and trunk raised, or the amber eyes of a pride of lions. But for me it is often the smaller creatures that command my attention: the dung beetle rolling its prize towards its hole or the spectacular blue flame…
In 2012 we were proud to launch a new series of travel literature titles. These are books which tell personal stories of travel, adventure, discovery and danger, and which collectively form a celebration of the world in which we live. The subjects vary greatly, from riding around Ireland on horseback to joining a troop of…