Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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From learning how to catch crayfish and cook up a meal from nature’s supermarket, to learning about tracking, and from kayaking with seals to rock climbing to see peregrines. He has written several books, including Predators, Looking for Adventure and Venom, and he is an author for the Rough Guide series. It also shows how dangerous the animals are and where is lives, What it eats and tells you if the animal is threatened. Steve has completed many endurance events; finished in the top third of the field in the Marathon Des Sables, the top ten of UK’s Tough Guy, 5th in the Welsh 1000m peaks marathon and completed the Devizes to Westminster kayak race.

He travels the world to learn about the most inspiring animals, from boxing mantis shrimp to charging tigers. Using cunning, cutting-edge technology and pure daring, they will defeat their enemy – once and for all. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. This book is a gift but he will love being able to read all the facts etc My 8yr old is a big fan and and has watched the whole TV series more than once. MOUNTAIN - A LIFE ON THE ROCKS is both a quest and a wonderfully absorbing autobiography by one of Britain's most intrepid climbers.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. It is full of exciting close up encounters with a plethora of species from the Brown Bear to the Mantis Shrimp, the Black Mamba to the Alligator Snapping Turtle. Steve’s outdoor sports CV includes having climbed the sixth highest mountain in the world (Cho Oyu 8201m) as well as many other ascents around the globe. He has presented on the programme Earth Pulse on the National Geographic channel, as well as the popular BBC children's' series The Really Wild Show and the primetime BBC series The One Show and the Expedition series, where he visited remote places such as Guyana, Alaska, St Kilda and Borneo.

Steve s encounters range from famous killers such as the Black Mamba and the North American Grizzly Bear to less well known but no less deadly animals. Outside television, Steve started studying for his biology degree in 2000 with the Open University, attained his diploma in Natural Sciences and has completed one of his finals courses, though is struggling to find time to complete the degree! We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. Each creature has a two page spread with photos and details listing why they made it onto the list, some quite surprising, others you would expect. Find out in exciting guides stuffed with weird facts, colour photos, survival tips and scary true stories.

Soon he was carrying business cards from National Geographic which described him as their ‘Adventurer in Residence’. Steve Backshall's Deadly 60 accompanies the CBBC television series of the same name, and follows wild life expert Steve Backshall on a round the world trip to document sixty deadly creatures. In his first ever DEADLY DIARIES Steve Backshall shares what it means to him to film the world’s top predators. Deep in the jungle, they're reunited on their most daredevil and audacious mission yet, to save the endangered orangutans before they become ghosts of the forest. He has just six months to travel six continents and find 60 of the deadliest creatures on the planet for the 26-part Children s BBC series of the same name which will air on BBC 1, CBBC, Discovery and Animal Planet channels.

Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit.

But something happens to make Saker change sides and now he’s on the run from his predatory brothers. Growing up, he counted the animals that lived around him as his best pals – from the asthmatic donkey to the grass snakes in the manure heap!