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Epic - A 30-Year Search for the Soul of Sport by Simon Barnes
Category: Sport
'For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times - but that's enough about me. What matters is sport.' This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He has reported on six World Cups, seven Olympic Games, cricket on five continents a ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
Category: History
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our ho ...Show more
How to Be a Bad BirdwatcherTo the Greater Glory of Life by Simon Barnes
Category: Nature
Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis refreshingly irreverent introduction to the subject, Simon Barnes makes birdwatching simple--and above all, enjoyable. Anyone who has ever looked up at the sky or gazed out the window knows a thing or two a ...Show more
How to be a Bad Botanist by Simon Barnes
Category: Gardening
Can you tell a tomato from a grape? A patch of grass from a Christmas tree? Then congratulations – you’re a botanist. Self-confessed bad birdwatcher Simon Barnes thought he knew nothing about plants. He didn't have anything against them: trees are interesting because birds perch in them; plants are use ...Show more
On the Marsh - A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet by Simon Barnes
Category: Nature
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even closer to home.When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto a ...Show more
Rewild Yourself - 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
'Such a simple, clever book.' Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways t ...Show more
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes
Category: Science
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining.And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatu ...Show more
The Green Planet by Simon Barnes; Kim Smith (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: BBC Earth
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes.There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magical ...Show more
The Green Planet (HB) by Simon Barnes
Category: Natural History
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes. There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magic ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
Category: Nature
An exquisite edition of The History of the World in 100 Animals by author and journalist Simon Barnes, adapted and abridged for younger readers, with superb illustrations by award-winning artist, Frann Preston-Gannon. This outstanding gift book proposes the 100 animals who have had the greatest impact o ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
Category: Gardening
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes
Category: Nature
A gorgeously illustrated and enchanting examination of the lives of birds, illuminating their wondrous world and our connection with them. One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As we ...Show more