Showing results by publisher "W. F. Howes Ltd" in Biological Sciences
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Disaster by Choice
- How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
- By: Ilan Kelman
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. we put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does.
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Disaster by Choice
- How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Flights of Fancy
- Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance90
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Story90
The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?
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The Master
- By michael lavin on 25-05-23
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Flights of Fancy
- Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-12-21
- Language: English
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The Fens
- Discovering England's Ancient Depths
- By: Francis Pryor
- Narrated by: Francis Pryor
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance82
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Story82
The Fens is Britain's most distinctive, complex, man-made and least understood landscape. Francis Pryor has lived in, excavated, farmed, walked and loved the Fen Country for more than 40 years: its levels and drains, its soaring churches and magnificent medieval buildings. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist.
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A very personal history
- By Ian on 19-05-20
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The Fens
- Discovering England's Ancient Depths
- Narrated by: Francis Pryor
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance200
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From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Starting with our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 10,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and languages, helped us to win wars, decorated our homes and financed the conquest of large swathes of the earth.
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Reasonably interesting, but recording has a glitch
- By foobar3000 on 16-09-25
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Fowl Play
- A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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The chicken can fly only a few metres but–somehow–this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. In Fowl Play, Sally Coulthard charts the chicken's fascinating journey from dinosaur to domestication to exploitation, exploring every aspect of the history of Gallus gallus domesticus.
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Fascinating and heartbreaking in equal measure.
- By Elizabeth Westray on 11-10-25
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Fowl Play
- A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-12-22
- Language: English
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The Forager's Calendar
- By: John Wright
- Narrated by: John Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance39
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Story39
A month by month handbook for foraging in the woods, fields and seashores of Great Britain. Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain and you are sure to see many wild species that you can take home and eat. From dandelions in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and even grasshoppers, our countryside is full of edible delights in any season.
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unexpected delight
- By lindapenname on 13-04-21
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The Forager's Calendar
- Narrated by: John Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Shearwater
- A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
- By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Narrated by: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Story27
Part memoir, part homage to wilderness, Shearwater traces the author’s 50-year obsession with one of nature’s supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of nature writing, Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of Liquid Gold - described by Mary Colwell (Curlew Moon) as ‘a book that ignites joy and warmth’ - unpicks the science behind its incredible journey; and into the story of a year in the shearwater’s life, he threads the inspirational influence of his Hebridean grandmother who instilled in him a love of wild places and wild animals.
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Easy listening
- By Mr Bill Baker on 10-08-25
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Shearwater
- A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
- Narrated by: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-04-21
- Language: English
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Alien Worlds
- The Secret Lives of Insects
- By: Steve Nicholls
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Insects are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived. They comprise a million species and perhaps 10 quintillion individuals: one in every four animals on the planet is a beetle; one in every ten is a butterfly or moth. Much of life on earth depends on the activities of these busy, teeming arthropods, from pollination to the breaking down of waste matter. In Alien Worlds, Steve Nicholls draws on a lifetime of writing about, photographing and filming the natural world to create an ambitious account of insect evolution and biology
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Fascinating Content but Poor Reading
- By veyza on 27-04-25
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Alien Worlds
- The Secret Lives of Insects
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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The Museum of the Wood Age
- By: Max Adams
- Narrated by: Max Adams
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species.
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The Museum of the Wood Age
- Narrated by: Max Adams
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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Live Forever?
- A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
- By: John Tregoning
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing "life-extending" diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them.
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Always have a sausage at hand!
- By Amazon Customer on 16-02-25
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Live Forever?
- A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Your Brain Is Playing Tricks on You
- By: Albert Moukheiber
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Our brain is recreating the world in its own way—most of the time for our own good: how hard would it be if, before making a choice, we had to know about all the options available in a given situation? Luckily, our brain can estimate: it allows us to reconstruct the world as we know it, and live in it. However, these very useful mechanisms can sometimes mislead us and have a rather negative impact on our actions, beliefs and opinions: when our brain behaves that way, we say it is biased. Albert Moukheiber gives us tips and tricks to fight against these cognitive biases.
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Your Brain Is Playing Tricks on You
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-05-22
- Language: English
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The Restless Coast
- A Journey Around the Edge of Britain
- By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Narrated by: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Britain is defined by the dynamic, mysterious and fragile coastline that surrounds it. In this moving and beautiful account, Roger Morgan-Grenville tells the story of his marathon journey around that coast, explains some of the key challenges and opportunities he found and celebrates the people who are trying to protect and enhance it.
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Bitter sweet brilliance
- By Nigel King on 26-10-25
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The Restless Coast
- A Journey Around the Edge of Britain
- Narrated by: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Bearded Tit
- By: Rory McGrath
- Narrated by: Rory McGrath
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance20
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Story20
From his Cornish boyhood, Rory recounts his life of birdwatching, observing his first skylark while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his mate Danny in the ways of birding. Rory's tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching.
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Not just for the twitchers
- By Mark on 08-08-10
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Bearded Tit
- Narrated by: Rory McGrath
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-05-10
- Language: English
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Last Sunset in the West
- Britain's Vanishing West Coast Orcas
- By: Natalie Sanders
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Britain has a single pod of orca, also known as killer whales, native to its home waters, although other orca visit from more northern regions. In 2014, Dr. Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the HV Silurian to seek them out and study them before we lose them forever. In The Last Sunset in the West, she discusses them one by one, and the many issues surrounding their lives in a captivating account that will take the listener deep into the history of our relations with the sentient and beautiful creatures.
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Informative and well delivered
- By DMC on 27-07-24
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Last Sunset in the West
- Britain's Vanishing West Coast Orcas
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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The Wood That Built London
- A Human History of the Great North Wood
- By: C.J. Schüler
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that, scattered through the suburbs, from Dulwich to Norwood, a number of oak woodlands have survived since before the Norman Conquest. These woods were intensively managed for a thousand years, providing timber for construction, furniture and shipbuilding, and charcoal for London's blacksmiths, kilns and bakeries. Now they afford important green space, a vital habitat for small mammals, birds and insects.
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The Wood That Built London
- A Human History of the Great North Wood
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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The Book of the Barn Owl
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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With its heart-shaped face and silent, graceful flight, the barn owl regularly tops the nation's list of favourite birds. But how much do we really know about this sublime tenant of the night? Here, bestselling author Sally Coulthard shines a light on the barn owl. Full of fascinating insights, conservation advice and the latest research, this affectionate and timely guide also tells the story of a barn owl's early life–from first pip of the shell to leaving the nest–a fascinating time in this captivating creature's journey.
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Fabulous
- By Craig David on 27-06-23
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The Book of the Barn Owl
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-12-22
- Language: English
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Outbreaks and Epidemics
- Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus
- By: Meera Senthilingam
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease - smallpox - has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite.
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Outbreaks and Epidemics
- Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus
- Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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The Dun Cow Rib
- A Very Natural Childhood
- By: John Lister-Kaye
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance21
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John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature and writing about them. Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.
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Glorified snobism and monotonous narration (sorry)?
- By Amazon Customer on 24-07-24
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The Dun Cow Rib
- A Very Natural Childhood
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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Taking Stock
- A Journey Among Cows
- By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows. So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book. For 10,000 years, cow and human lives have been intertwined. Cattle have existed alongside us, fed and shod us, quenched our thirst, and provided a thousand other tiny services, and yet most of us know little about them.
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Taking Stock
- A Journey Among Cows
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-07-22
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Larking
- By: Lara Maiklem
- Narrated by: Lara Maiklem
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking, but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. There are charts, tips and lists throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative. Like a journal, it invites you to interact - to make notes and record finds along the way.
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Loved her first book
- By HeyDon't. on 05-03-22
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A Field Guide to Larking
- Narrated by: Lara Maiklem
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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