Wild Life: Amazing Animals, Extraordinary People, Astonishing Places - Hardcover

King, Simon

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9780340981054: Wild Life: Amazing Animals, Extraordinary People, Astonishing Places

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340981059 ISBN 13: 9780340981054

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009

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Even as a very young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah, charged at by rhinos and elephants and defecated upon by a long list of birds and other animals may sound like hell to some. But these, along with countless other experiences alongside all things furry, scaly, slimy and feathery have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to relive and retell.
With his professional life starting aged ten, acting in a television drama called The Fox, (for which he looked after an orphaned fox for two years at home), through projects such as Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Big Cat Diary to name just a few, Simon King has traveled to every continent and lived in extreme conditions from remote desert to Arctic and Antarctic wilderness.
With characteristic honesty and charm, Simon King weaves his animal stories amongst encounters with extraordinary people, and astonishing places to give us a memoir that will delight readers.

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Review:

Heartwarming and candid (Daily Mail)

His book is packed with wild encounters (Independent)

This is a heart-warming, engagingly honest read (Scotsman)

Inspirational (BBC Wildlife Magazine)

Fascinating...Simon's passion is infectious, as anyone who's watched his programmes knows, and his enthusiasm pours from every word in his new book (Beautiful Britain)

Book Description:

The top ten bestselling memoir by the hugely popular presenter of Big Cat Diary and Springwatch.

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