White Fang navigates the cold, barren landscape in this enduring classic which explores animal instinct, bravery and primitive naturalism as it charts the wolf-dog's journey from the wild to domestication.
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees, by Dave Goulson
A passionate and lyrical look at history's relationship to the bumblebee, this book also weaves in tales of Goulson's childhood fascination with wildlife and highlights his exclusive research on the short-haired bumblebee.
My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
A delightful autobiographical account of Durrell's time on the island with his widowed mother, siblings and a motley gang of toads, tortoises, bats, butterflies, scorpions, geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles to name but a few.
Born Free, by Joy Adamson (1960)
Elsa the Kenyan lioness became world famous when her story was immortalised in Adamson's account of raising and training the orphaned cub.
