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Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide William Gray

Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide By William Gray

Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide by William Gray


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Summary

Footprint's Wildlife Travel provides a comprehensive, authoritative guide to every imaginable type of trip, helping you identify the wildlife travel adventure that is right for you. This awe-inspiring guide will help you plan and enjoy the best of the world's trips, enabling you to get closer than you ever imagined to the world's greatest wildlife.

Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide Summary

Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide by William Gray

From African safaris to cruises in the Galapagos Islands, there is a bewildering range of wildlife holidays on offer and deciding where to go and what to see can be a real dilemma. Footprint's Wildlife Travel provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to every imaginable type of trip, helping you identify the wildlife travel adventure that is right for you. * Highlights the best wildlife experiences continent by continent * Provides practical, hands-on advice from choosing the right tour operator to staying healthy * Groups wildlife trips by type from safaris and cruises to bird-watching and underwater life, helping you focus on your particular area of interest * Features informative, first-hand accounts of wildlife encounters from tracking tigers in India to snorkelling with whale sharks making this guide a riveting read for armchair and experienced travellers alike * Stunning full-colour photography throughout helps bring the experiences to life giving the book coffee-table appeal as well as offering a practical guide and indispensable planning tool * Experienced wildlife travel author, William Gray, is a zoology graduate and has travelled the world in search of wildlife and wild places. Recently voted one of the UK's top 5 travel journalists, he has been writing articles and books for over 20 years. Footprint's awe-inspiring guide to Wildlife Travel will take you whale-watching in North America, camping on an African safari and tracking tigers in India. It will help you plan and enjoy the best of the world's wildlife adventures, enabling you to get closer than you ever imagined to the world's greatest wildlife.

Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide Reviews

'If you follow the advice and guidance offered in this excellent book, it will be good for the world's wildlife and the communities that support it too.' Kate Humble, BBC Wildlife Presenter "Wider-ranging than a blue whale and more densely packed than a butterfly migration, this new tome by Wanderlust contributing editor William Gray is the definitive manual for wildlife-loving travellers... Encyclopaedic." Dan Linstead, Editor, Wanderlust "Very impressive! Lustrously illustrated and great info" Simon King, Wildlife Film Maker and TV Presenter

About William Gray

It's hard to say which was the more pivotal moment of William Gray's travelling career - surviving his first long-haul flight with toddler twins or clinching the coveted Travel Writer of the Year award in 2002. A member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, William wrote and illustrated his first book at the age of 23. Coral Reefs & Islands: The Natural History of a Threatened Paradise was highly commended in the Conservation Book Prize. A sought-after photographer, William supplies images to several leading agencies including Photolibrary, Travel Ink and John Warburton-Lee. In 1995 William accompanied Patrick Lichfield as guest lecturer on the Oriana's maiden Atlantic crossing and he now gives slide talks throughout the UK. William followed up his award-winning Travel with Kids with Britain with Kids and Footprint's recently published Cornwall with Kids. For more information, check out willliam-gray.co.uk.

Table of Contents

(1) Encounters - World Map, Apes & Monkeys, Cats & dogs, Elephants and rhinos, Bears & pandas, Whales & dolphins, Sharks, Birds, Bats & Bugs; (2) Essentials - Responsible travel, Choosing an operator, Wildlife year planner, Types of travel, Feature: Wilderness journeys, What to take, Feature: Wildlife photography, Staying healthy; (3) Destinations - North America: Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Field craft, Key wildlife travel locations, Top 10 bear-watching locations; Latin America: Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife travel locations, Feature: Whalewatching in the Sea of Cortez, Feature: Top 10 Amazon lodges, Feature: Top 10 Galapagos cruise vessels; Europe: Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife travel locations, Feature: Top 10 European bird-watching locations; Africa - Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife travel locations, Feature: Safari circuits, Feature: African safari camps and lodges; Asia - Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife travel locations, Feature: India's tiger reserves; Australisia - Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife locations, Feature: Great Barrier Reef Islands; Polar Regions - Natural history, Wildlife, Nature journeys, Fieldcraft, Key wildlife travel locations, Feature: Top 10 polar cruise vessels, Feature: Oceanic island wildlife; Directory of Resources; Index of Wildlife

Additional information

GOR005406651
9781907263484
1907263489
Wildlife Travel Footprint Activity & Lifestyle Guide by William Gray
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Footprint Travel Guides
2011-09-13
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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