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. Packed with fascinating facts and drawing on Steve's own amazing experiences, this is the second fact-filled DEADLY guid. As they rescue tigers or mountain gorillas, thwart shark finners and cyanide fishers, rainforest exploiters and canned hunters, they come face to face with the world’s most fascinating, majestic and lethal creatures. Each animal has a rating a little like trump cards, with categories size, speed, weapons and deadly rating, with up to 5 points for each item. He travels the world to learn about the most inspiring animals, from boxing mantis shrimp to charging tigers.

Stunning colour photographs and exciting accounts of Steve's own encounters with some of these animals bring the world of natural venom alive He also looks at the science of natural toxins, and at how natural venoms are increasingly used in medicine and for the treatment of chronic disease in humans. 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 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 BBC1 and the CBBC Channel.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . It all began after a rainy-day visit with his family to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Steve has circumnavigated the globe time and again, venturing into the Sinai desert , completing the Israeli paratroopers selection course, catching anacondas, vipers and cobras and (perhaps the best job ever) making “The Ten Great Dives of the World”, for the long-running series ‘Earthpulse’.The photography is fantastic - pictures of the Deadly 60 adourn every page and convey the beauty, magnificence and danger of the natural world. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Deadly 60 gives each of the creatures a rating for their deadliness according to their size, speed and weapons. Create your very own Deadly adventure with Deadly TV presenter Steve Backshall's first ever interactive 24-page full col. Join him as footsteps, feeding habits and even a pile of pooh reveals snow leopards, crocodiles, gators, snakes and polar bears, while closer to home you can track foxes, squirrels, badgers and birds, using exactly the same techniques.

After writing for ROUGH GUIDES and filming documentaries for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC he became a key member of the expedition team for the hit series, LOST LAND OF THE JAGUAR, LOST LAND OF THE VOLCANO and LOST LAND OF THE TIGER. The book to accompany the TV series, this lists the creatures that made it onto the list in terms of how deadly they are to other 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. In ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’, Steve was the first outsider to enter the Volcano Mount Bosavi – where the team discovered as many as 40 new species, including the largest rat in the world!National Geographic Channel International bought the resultant video and Steve was taken on as ‘Adventurer in Residence’, producing, filming and presenting adventure and natural history programmes. Steve’s great passion is inspiring others to get outside and get interested in wildlife and the Great Outdoors, and in this ‘How To’ guide, he comes up with a thousand suggestions for doing just that. This book was recommended to me by a nine year old boy who professes to hate reading - so for me it is already a winner! Put your DEADLY knowledge to the test with Steve Backshall's next fun and interactive activity book, to tie in with the .