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Books > Earth & environment
This Poem book takes you on an underwater adventure to meet all
sorts of characters under the sea! Swimming around and hvaing fun
with new friends, one thing become clear.... There's too much
plastic in our oceans! Something needs to be done.
Thirty years of Butterflies in traditional Lancashire and Cheshire.
A regional butterfly atlas with a difference: taking three ten-year
periods (last decade of the 20th century and the first two decades
of the 21st), this book documents the changes in distribution and
abundance of all the butterfly species which occur of have occurred
within vice-counties 58, 59, 60 and the furness portion of 69,
which equate to the true historic or traditional English counties
of Cheshire and Lancashire a " a a no legislation has ever changed
the boundaries of Britaina s traditional countiesa a From a base in
the MerseyValley, close to the border between the counties, the
author explores the length and breadth of both of them, noting how
the butterflies have been affected by human activities as well as
by the forces of Nature, and also takes a closer look at the
1974-created administrative areas of Merseyside and Greater
Manchester, and their central cities of Liverpool and Manchester.
There is also a section of flowers which butterflies use for their
nutrition within the two counties.
Twisted Mountains is a collection of short stories set among the
summits of England, Scotland and Wales, from Ben Hope to the South
Downs. Each tells the story of someone who has their own reasons to
be in the mountains. From a vengeful student to obsessive hostel
owner, the wannabe biker to the Wainwright expert with a secret.
While the stories are varied in their subjects, all have mountains
at their heart and a dark humour running through them. Authored by
Tim Woods, Twisted Mountains provides a different take on the
characters you find in and around the mountains. Tim tells their
stories in the characters' varied voices, in ways that are
shocking, dark, funny and sad, sometimes all at once.
A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring
guide to 'larking' from the bestselling author of Mudlarking. LARK
(verb): to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to
discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of
course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking
or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this
beautiful field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves.
There are maps and charts, tips and lists, and colour illustrations
throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers
to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative
and yet small enough to pop in a pocket. Like a journal it invites
you to interact - to make notes and record finds along the way. If
Lara Maiklem's first book was a glimpse into a hidden world, with
this field guide she shows us how we can discover it for ourselves.
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