From sea squirts to slugs to swallowtails, the third, fabulous and gorgeously illustrated book in Richard Mabey's series, a companion volume to the bestselling classics Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica.
Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on
invertebrate folklore and names. His books include The New
Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural
History's Thackray Medal, Britain's Rare Flowers, which won the
Botanical Society of the British Isles' Presidents' Award. He won a
Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on Bugs Britannica.
Richard Mabey is 'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The
Times) and the force behind the Britannica series. Among his
acclaimed publications are Food for Free, Gilbert White (Whitbread
Biography of the Year) Nature Cure, Beechcombings and Flora
Britannica, which won the British Book Awards' Illustrated Book of
the Year and the Botanical Society of the British Isles'
President's Award. He also collaborated with Mark Cocker on Birds
Britannica.
"The 400-plus color illustrations throughout are superlative." --Library Journal on Birds Britannica
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