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	wildlife walks Back by popular demand, this new version of 'Wildlife Walks' comes with a complete redesign, making it even more easy to use and refer to. Covering over 500 of the Wildlife Trusts' reserves throughout the UK, with details of what wildlife you can see, seasonal advice and over 400 original maps, illustrations and photographs, 'Wildlife Walks' is and essential handbook for a great family day out. In addition to detailed information on hundreds of individual walks across the UK, the book includes guidance on: animal tracking - how to identify common tracks seen while out walking; understanding the geology of the British landscape; and understanding underwater nature. What they said about the previous edition: 'The Wildlife Trusts have fantastic nature reserves and this book is a must for anyone interested in wildlife. Buy it and visit a reserve today!!' - Bill Oddie, author and broadcaster. Wildlife reserves of the UK are the great roofless cathedrals of the country. The more people that visit them, the more valuable they will become. This book helps to open the cathedral doors' - Simon Barnes, author. 'Thanks to The Wildlife Trusts unique network of nature reserves, it is still possible to enjoy the best of the UK's wild plants and animals at first-hand and there is nothing to beat it' - Chris Baines, author and broadcaster. 320pp more on eco-holidays Price: £14.99
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	discovering green lanes Valerie Belsey This is the essential handbook for anyone interested in green lanes. Valerie Belsey shows how to identify them on the ground, how to recognise them on antique maps, and how to locate documents and other records which will reveal who used them in past times. She also discusses their ecological value, the current controversy about who should be able to use them, and how to get involved in restoring and protecting lanes in your area. Discovering Green Lanes includes useful contact information, key dates in highway history and sample survey forms for recording wildlife in your local green lane. 128pp more on eco-holidays Price: £6.95
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	the man in seat 61: a guide to taking the train through europe Mark Smith Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy, he is in fact the man behind the massively popular website, which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. This book is the essential guide for anyone who wishes to travel to Europe and beyond by train. Packed with insider knowledge and top tips, it offers advice on everything from the quickest routes and the cheapest fares to the best weekends away; traveling with children and changing trains; timetables and maps; essential items to travel with; and everything in between. More and more people are choosing to avoid air travel and seek alternatives, and this is the only book they need to plan those journeys. 496pp more on eco-holidays Price: £12.99
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	flight-free europe: great breaks by rail, road and sea Time Out Guides As concerns grow about global warming and more people look for holidays closer to home, Time Out has put together a selection of inspirational trips to Europe (and sometimes beyond!) that won't cost you or the planet a single air mile. Europe's railway system is getting faster and sleeker, and now that Eurostar trains depart from St Pancras, with great connections to the north of the UK, continental destinations are more accessible than ever before. You can get to Paris in two hours 15 minutes, Brussels in under two hours and Strasbourg and Cologne in under five. By 2010, Europe will have 4,000 miles of high-speed lines - and some very boutique-y sleeper cars, making plane-free holidays a realistic and stress-free alternative to air travel. But "Flight-Free Europe" isn't just a railway guide.It also includes trips by boat - including the new cruise-style ferries - bicycle and motorbike, even car (now hire companies are offering greener options), covering a variety of destinations from classic cities to undiscovered countryside. For each, we give a selection of the best places to sleep, eat and experience, and some great ideas for side trips. There are also activity breaks and a section of longer journeys to undertake for their own sake, bringing back the idea of the Grand Tour and rescuing the romance of travel.This book snapshots journey time: Under two hours - city breaks in Brussels and Dublin; cycling in Pas de Calais; wilderness hiking in the Orkneys. An easy day - city breaks in Marseilles, Cologne and Lyons; wine-tasting along the Rhone; best of Brittany. Overnighters - city breaks in Toulouse, Turin and Barcelona; touring the Canal du Midi on a peniche; exploring Spain's Picos de Europa. Grand tours - Scottish Isles and Iceland; Orient Express; Baltic ferry-hopping; yachting in Croatia; Trans-Siberian Express; Stavanger, European City of Culture 2008, and the Norwegian fjords. 280pp more on eco-holidays Price: £14.99
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	no-nonsense guide to tourism Pamela Nowicka This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labour conditions to development by stealth; to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. It also takes in themes like the gap year, the role of travel and vacations in western cultures, and examines the 'happy smiling faces' syndrome and asks whether this is just a reworking of old colonial relationships. This title offers a plain-speaking, independent view that gives examples of healthy, sustainable tourism. 144pp more on eco-holidays Price: £6.99
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	the final call: investigating who really pays for our holidays Leo Hickman No industry in the world employs more people or earns more foreign currency than tourism. Long billed as the cleanest industry for developing countries to invest in, tourism seems to offer everyone involved a positive experience. This is the official line, anyway. In truth, the reality is much more complex. For "The Final Call" Hickman travels the world on a range of holidays and finds that behind the sunny facade of pools, smiling locals, sightseeing trips and exquisite cuisine is an ugly reality and it is spreading unchecked to all corners of the globe. But none of us are going to stop holidaying and at the heart of this is a heartfelt attempt to discover the best way to holiday wherever you are. 416pp more on eco-holidays Price: £7.99
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	fencing paradise: the uses and abuses of plants Richard Mabey In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative, exquisitely written, his new book challenges the reader to look differently at the world, and our place in the landscape. At the same time, Mabey is controversial in his views about what we mean by buzz words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable', and he is highly provocative in his final response to the Eden Project itself. 240pp more on eco-holidays Price: £8.99
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