Product Description: Hero or villain? Few animals divide opinion like the red fox. This most successful of the world's wild canids has lived alongside people from time immemorial. Celebrated by some for its resourcefulness and lush pelt, reviled by others for plundering chicken runs and overturning trash bins, it has worked its way deep into Western culture--from Janácek's Cunning Little Vixen to Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr...read more

Product Description: This is the only dedicated, in-depth guide to Swaziland. Author Mike Unwin explores the excellent wildlife reserves and wild hiking trails offering waterfalls, rock art and prolific flora and birdlife. He introduces travelers to the country’s rich and varied landscapes encompassing both the mountainous western ‘highveld’ and the dusty eastern ‘lowveld’...read more

Looks at the flora and fauna of Lapland, that area of northern Europe and northwestern Russia which lies within the Arctic circle. It examines the ecosystems and species by habitat type, with one chapter dealing with freshwater habitats, another with open tundra and so on. Conservation issues affecting it today are also discussed.

Each volume in this series of Key Stage Two books examines the lifecycle and life processes of a particular animal or insect. The book includes illustrations and photographs. This volume focuses on reptiles.

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