Books for sale
Where to see Wildlife
This stunning 152 page full colour handbook covers our local Wildlife Trust nature reserves across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire & Peterborough. It includes photographs of each reserve and its wildlife, location maps and directions, together with descriptions and the best season to visit. Priced at £12* (plus £1 p&p) To buy your copy, please send a cheque for £13 made payable to 'The Wildlife Trust' to our Cambridgeshire office quoting reference 'Where to see'.*Or free of charge to new members paying by Direct Debit. Please visit the 'Become a member' page.
Wildlife Gardening for Everyone
In 2005, The Wildlife Trusts and the RHS combined their expertise to launch an exciting and innovative new perspective on wildlife gardening. By encouraging members of the public to swap ideas, experiences, questions and answers with each other through the internet, we were able to develop a network of wildlife gardening discussions and shared information. This book takes the very best of those ideas, and tops them up with expert advice from professional RHS gardeners and Wildlife Trust naturalists.To buy your copy, please send a cheque for £12.99 made payable to 'The Wildlife Trust' to our Cambridgeshire office quoting reference 'Wildlife Gardening'.
Nature Tales:
Encounters with Britain’s Wildlife
Nature Tales celebrates Britain’s wildlife and landscapes with some of the greatest nature-writers in the world and was co-compiled by our former Chairman Michael Allen. It is published by Elliot and Thompson priced at £18.99 and is avaliable to buy from all good bookshops.
‘Natures powers & spells’ – Landscape Change, John Clare and me
Celebrated local artist, Carry Akroyd, has produced a colourful book of landscape images, which looks at the relationship between humans and wildlife. A keen supporter of the Wildlife Trust Living Landscapes; the Great Fen project and John Clare Country project, Carry has selected work from 20 years, and explains how she has been influnced by the renowned, local, 19th century poet John Clare. The book is published by Langford Press and is priced at £38.
Brampton Wood - A Natural History
A superb account of the history, management and wildlife of our largest woodland reserve.It summarises 20 years of patient fieldwork by local naturalists, illustrated with superb colour photographs.With comprehensivelists of all the wildlife - from birds and mammals, flowers, fungi, and butterfliesto beetles, moths and mosses - it's one of the finest accounts of any nature reserve. Anyone with an interest in woods, wildlife or local history, or who enjoys walking in a place of beauty and tranquillity will learn something from this book. To buy your copy (£15 inc p&p) please contact Peter Walker on 01480 390191 or at walkpeg@ntlworld.com Please make cheques payable to the Huntingdonshire Flora and Fauna Society (HFFS).
Tales of Averon: The Dark Army
This is the first in a series of books by emerging author - and Wildlife Trust meber - A. M. Keen.
The most vicious fox hounds to ever engulf the countryside are pursuing Streak, a cunning and clever fox relentlessly across the Great Vast Open. They are the Dark Army, and their leader Baal is the most feared hound in their violent history. When the Dark Army’s hunt is suddenly called off, Streak escapes in to a strange, new forest known as Averon, where he is rescued by fellow foxes Doran and Tali. However, no fox ever escapes the wrath of Baal...
As the Dark Army rises and prepares for its final attack, the foxes of Averon must find a way to defeat them. Aided only by a small group of animals living within the great forest, will Streak and the animals of Averon be able to unite in time to outwit and overcome Baal’s deadly Dark Army, before they are once again released to hunt them all...?
You can purchase the book from http://www.authorhouse.co.uk/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000432634
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Averon-Dark-M-Keen/dp/1456770780/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i
At Helpston: Meetings with John Clare
These essays by Ronald Blythe, many of them presidential addresses to the John Clare Society, form a unique series of ‘meetings’ between the Northamptonshire labourer who became England’s finest nature poet and our own ‘rural intellectual’, the author of Akenfield. The work of the Suffolk artist Mary Newcomb provides a perfect foil to the lyricism of Blythe’s prose and the genius of Clare’s verse.
As Blythe reminds us, much has been written about Clare – the eco poet, the poet of protest and voice of the countryside – but he urges us to revisit the work and have ‘our entire universe expanded by his language’. Like the nightingale Clare ‘hides and sings’ and from his yeoman’s house tucked away in the Stour valley Blythe too ‘hides and sings’ and we are privileged to hear his voice.
Copies can be obtained direct from Black Dog Books by sending a cheque for £20 to include P+P to Black Dog Books, 104 Trinity Street, Norwich, NR2 2BJ or online at www.blackdogbooks.co.uk via Paypal or Amazon. ISBN 978 0 9565672 2 2, 168 page hardback (155 x 233mm)
Northants and Oxfordshire Ramble
The Wildlife Trust is one of four recipient charities who will receive a donation from the sales of a new book featureing a selection of walks in the Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire countryside. For our supply of 50 sold we will receive the full amount which is £7.99 per copy so it’s a good way to get some money for the Trust.
To buy your copy, please send a cheque for £7.99 made payable to 'The Wildlife Trust' to our Northamptonshire office quoting reference 'Northants Ramble'.