Life in the Wild
Published by Dorling Kindersley
This book has no pretensions. It is a celebration of wildlife photographs, and I say photographs rather than photography. The book contains some 200 stunning wildlife images and virtually nothing else. There are a couple of hundred words of intro, and a few words with each image about the creature, and that is it. But, as they say, a picture speaks a thousand words, and most of these images do at least elephants and big cats.
However the birds are a step up in class, but still only the aperitif before the stunning dishes of the fish, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. There are many many images, but if I had to pick out a few ‘Desert Island' pictures, the Tokay gecko, the fantastic leaf-tailed gecko and the Peruvian grasshopper would grace any mud hut, or palace.
If you want tips about apertures, f-stops and shutter speeds, this isn't the book for you, as none of those words feature. But if you want to marvel at the colours, disguises and patterns of some of the world's less celebrated wildlife, get this book.
RRP £25, but available on Amazon from about £15, click Life In The Wild
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