Wildabout...

If

you like Planet Earth II ( see pages 6 and 7), you might also like these books:

H is for Hawk, by Helen MacDonald When her father unexpectedly died, a griefstricken MacDonald developed an obsessive desire to train a goshawk, known as a “murderous, difficult to tame, sulky creature,” as a way of working through her grief.

White Fang by Jack London White Fang navigates the cold, barren landscape in this enduring classic which explores animal instinct, bravery and primitive naturalism as it charts the wolf- dog’s journey from the wild to domestication. A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees, by Dave Goulson A passionate and lyrical look at history’s relationship to the bumblebee, this book also weaves in tales of Goulson’s childhood fascination with wildlife and highlights his exclusive research on the short- haired bumblebee. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell A delightful autobiographical account of Durrell’s time on the island with his widowed mother, siblings and a motley gang of toads, tortoises, bats, butterflies, scorpions, geckos, ladybirds, glow- worms, octopuses and rosebeetles to name but a few.

Born Free, by Joy Adamson ( 1960) Elsa the Kenyan lioness became world famous when her story was immortalised in Adamson’s account of raising and training the orphaned cub.