Wild Britain - a Traveller's Guide, Sheldrake Press, £12.50

This series of books - there's a Wild France, Wild Spain and others - are not for the Ibiza-bound clubber. This is for the hiker and the committed rambler but there's plenty of relish in Douglas Botting's text as he describes his walks through forests and across moors, pinpointing the bird's eye primrose or the kite, a colony of gannets or the pearl-bordered fritillary (a butterfly). Lots of information about where to stay, what to take and which maps are best.

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