Book description
A delightful portrait of some of the UK's best-loved wild animals and
birds and the colourful enthusiasts who champion their causes.
Meet Paul, the amazing beaver-man up who lives in Perthshire, the
owl-man from Somerset, and the water vole-woman from Shropshire. They
are all amazing characters who manage to carry a deep knowledge of
their chosen species within a distinctly quirky shell. Other animals
making an appearance include otters , house sparrows, robins , owls,
bats, badgers, dolphins, toads, dragonflies, moths, foxes and adders.
Hugh Warwick, animal enthusiast and hedgehog fanatic, writes a series
of affectionate and quirky homages to the animals of the British
Isles, composed of fieldwork and interviews with the people who love
and conserve them.
Hugh Warwick is an environmental writer and photographer whose work
has appeared across print media from BBC Wildlife and New Scientist to
the Daily Telegraph - for whom he was unofficially hedgehog
correspondent for a while - to radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and
his appearance as the 'Eco-Worrier' on Fred McAuley's Radio Scotland
show. He was also the field producer on Robert Greenwald's film
'Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price'. Hugh has studied hedgehogs, off
and on, for over 20 years, and has most recently been responsible for
stopping the great hedgehog massacre of Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
