The author is both an entomologist and a nature photographer
Woven into accounts of these creatures’ behaviour are informative nuggets such as Cardinal Wolsey's fear of spiders and how flies can solve murders
each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 180 themes
I felt I was out there in the wild
who was the first son of a shepherd himself and whose family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations
The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology The author is both anIn this honest and lyrical account of a life without modern technology, Mark Boyle explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the spring, foraging and fishing. What he finds is an elemental life, one governed by the rhythms of the sun and seasons, where life and death dance in a primal landscape of blood, wood, muck, water, and fire much the same life we have lived for most of our