Wild Isles

Wild Isles is a celebration of the wildlife found on the British Isles, featuring diverse landscapes and seas. It explores the relationships between species who make their home on the islands, from grasslands to woodlands to marine life. The book is divided into five breathtaking sections.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

This captivating visual guide to the fauna of the British Isles showcases the remarkable diversity of our plant and animal life.

Wild Isles is a tribute to the wildlife that thrives on a relatively small group of islands located at a latitude that is too northern to attract many animals and plants. Despite these unfavorable conditions, the islands of Britain and Ireland, along with over 6,000 smaller islets that form our archipelago, contain some of the most diverse, breathtaking, and wildlife-rich landscapes and seas on our planet. This book will delve into the fascinating interactions between and within species that call our beautiful isles home.

Each chapter focuses on a specific type of wild space. Britain and Ireland are dominated by a wide range of grasslands, from lowland water meadows to upland moors, and we will explore how these human-shaped, semi-natural landscapes teem with insect, bird, and mammal life. Life requires water to thrive, and streams and rivers carry freshwater through our landscape, creating unique ecosystems and interrelationships within and beside these waters, which are revealed in a third section. While Britain and Ireland's woodlands are relatively thin on the ground compared to most of continental Europe, we will see some of the forests and trees that remain are unusually ancient and, great repositories of life. Finally, of course, we are surrounded by sea, and our position on the continental shelf before it plunges into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean gives rise to an often overlooked abundance of marine life. A glorious richness divided into five breathtaking sections.

Weight: 1632g
Dimension: 229 x 290 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008359317