Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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Whilst living in the jungle he wrangled snakes and ended up in a Colombian jail (through no fault of his own)! It all began after a rainy-day visit with his family to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea. The following three years were awash with wildlife highlights; sharing a beach with 75,000 nesting olive ridley turtles, having a baby mountain gorilla take him by the hand and having a red-eyed tree frog leap into his face. He began his career working for the Rough Guides and freelance travel writing for various publications including The Independent and The Times.

He has had his own season of programmes on Eden television channel alongside legends David Attenborough and Bruce Parry. From lethal beauties to killer beasts, from the unseen to the unexpected, the one thing these creatures have in common is that they are all deadly to other animals.Saker once was one of them, until he met Sinter, and realised that the Clan was working for evil, rather than good. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Packed with fascinating facts and drawing on Steve's own amazing experiences, this is the second fact-filled DEADLY guid. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

Including the renowned, the unexpected and the downright bizarre, this companion book to Steve Backshall s high adrenaline tour of the world s most deadly is not to be missed. He travels the world to learn about the most inspiring animals, from boxing mantis shrimp to charging tigers. Join DEADLY 60 presenter Steve Backshall in the world’s deadliest book about animals, packed with fascinating facts, killer statistics and stunning photographs. Combined with his own incredible experiences with creatures, large and small, Steve reveals tricks of camouflage, feats of strength, endurance, teamwork and speed, as well as giving us a glimpse into the lives of extremeophiles and looking at some of our planet’s endangered species. The book serves as a companion to Backshall's popular TV series, and captures the most remarkable techniques and fearsome weapons in the animal kingdom.From that moment on the seven-year-old boy was captivated: he knew this was somewhere he needed to go, this was a place he needed to explore. 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. It also shows how dangerous the animals are and where is lives, What it eats and tells you if the animal is threatened. MOUNTAIN - A LIFE ON THE ROCKS is both a quest and a wonderfully absorbing autobiography by one of Britain's most intrepid climbers.

and these color photographs bring readers as close as theyd ever want to get to such dangerous game as Africa's Black Mamba, a snake whose lethal bite can kill an adult human in 15 minutes, and the mysterious, carnivorous Ghost Bat of northern Australia.

Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. He has presented on 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. But something happens to make Saker change sides and now he’s on the run from his predatory brothers. After leaving Exeter University with a degree in English and Theatre Studies, Steve studied martial arts in Japan attaining his black belt.