The captivating story of the search through Europe for the Slender-billed curlew which stands on the brink of extinction.

The captivating story of the search through Europe for the Slender-billed curlew which stands on the brink of extinction

The slender-billed curlew is one of the world's rarest birds. A beautiful, fragile creature, it bred in Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing

'Unforgettable' - ROSAMUND LUPTON Virginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh. One snowy New Year's Eve, at the age of eighty-six,

Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in