Wild Southwest: The Landscapes & Wildlife of Southwest England by Nigel Hicks

Wild Southwest is a colourful, richly illustrated introduction to southwest England’s most beautiful places, as well as its magnificent plant and animal wildlife. With a text that is both informative and entertaining, illustrated with Nigel’s stunning landscape and wildlife photography, this book aims both to inform and inspire, bringing to life the beauty of southwest England’s natural world.

Covering the four southwest counties of Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, environments covered by this book include the region’s two national parks (Dartmoor and Exmoor) and its geological World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast), as well as a host of wider environments, ranging from Somerset’s Mendip Hills and Dorset’s chalk grasslands, to the coast of Devon and Cornwall, the lovely Isles of Scilly, and the stunning submarine environment that surrounds the southwest peninsula.