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Wonderland
- A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day
- Narrated by: Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
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Summary
A life-affirming nature diary - with something amazing to see and experience on every day of the year - from award-winning authors and Springwatch experts Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss.
From blackbirds, beavers and beetles to tawny owls, natterjack toads and lemon slugs. Every day of the year, winter or summer, in every corner of the British Isles, there's plenty to see if you know where - and how - to look. From encounters with the curious black redstart, which winters on our rocky coasts, to the tiny green snowdrop shoots that are the first sign that spring might be round the corner. And from the blossom-time and dawn choruses of April and May into the abundant noisiness of summer, where days start with hawker dragonflies and drowsy bumblebees and end with glowworms and ghost moths, to autumn, when in the early morning mist of London's Richmond Park, male red deer lock horns in competition for a mate. Nature is always full of surprises - whether it's the strange behaviour of clothes moths or the gruesome larder of the strike.
Distilling two lifetimes' knowledge, expert insight and enthusiasm, award-winning authors and passionate naturalists Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss take us through the year day by day, sharing the unexpected delights that we can experience in our skies, beaches, rivers, fields, forests and back gardens. There are all kinds of adventures waiting on your doorstep any day of the year; all you need is Wonderland.
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- Oliver Silver
- 04-12-19
Good but lacks real narrative
Collection of sightings in chronological order. Main focus on birds. Hard to imagine most birds if you’ve never seen them before. Descriptive language. There are glaring errors in the audio book where sections repeat or have been edited in error suggesting no one even bothered to listen to the audio book in its entirety before publishing - pretty bad.
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- Cloudbunny
- 19-09-18
Brilliant!
What a fantastic book! It's so good I've bought the paper copy as well. Like listening to Springwatch! The authors narrate the book with obvious enthusiasm. I learned lots of new facts about the wildlife around me.
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- Miss Pope
- 21-10-18
Fantastic day by day journey
This was a fantastic book and have loved listening to it, actually looking forward to driving to and from work so I would have a full hour to listen. My nine year old son has really enjoyed it too. The day by day sections give you a real taster of the wildlife they are describing and have given us things to look out for and even research more. I can’t recommend this enough it was brilliant!! So sad it had to end.
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- T. Griffith
- 04-02-20
Fast moving and scintillating
Starting in January, the authors alternately describe interactions with 100s of UK/visiting species. Knowledge intensive.
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- Julieb
- 10-06-20
Enjoyed every single day
I learned so much from this audio book.. Lemon Slugs.. Ducks I've never heard of that live by Heathrow Airport. This is a real gem of a book about flora and fauna. So relaxing to listen to..I recommend for all ages
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- DLC
- 30-09-17
love nature = love wonderland! & it portrayal here
Day to day memory's of life outside, as you could've seen it if only you got out in the open
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- Kindle Customer
- 13-05-20
Entertaining & Informative.
An absolute joy to listen to the day by day accounts of wildlife watching over the passing year with themes familiar & some not so familiar of the variety of wildlife found up & down the country.
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- Alexandria
- 21-04-20
Wonderful trip through our flaura and fauna.
This is a lovely book. I am by no means an outdoor type but since reading this I have developed a whole new appreciation for my surroundings and the wildlife I cross paths - yes, that includes the creepy crawly ones too. And the best part was finding the name of an animal I spotted several years. I would have sworn blind it was a hummingbird but thanks to this book I've now found out it was a type of moth. The hummingbird halk moth to be precise.
A great listen!
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- Anonymous User
- 29-11-18
Great!!
Great content, a few technical issues where it repeats itself, but really enjoyable to listen too.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-11-18
Treasure trove of information
I’ve learnt so much just by absorbing this entertaining book about my beloved British wildlife.
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