ENDEMIC: EXPLORING THE WILDLIFE UNIQUE TO BRITAIN (HB)

A tapestry of wonder and weirdness, tragedy and triumph, Endemic celebrates the rare, obscure and entirely British plants, animals and fungi found nowhere else. Travelling from the home of the Orkney vole to suburban Plymouth, where the horrid ground-weaver spider lives in just three locations; from fungi on Norfolk roadsides to the ghostly cave shrimp of Devon, the author meets the experts devoted to the study of these vanishingly rare creatures and plants, individuals working tirelessly - often single-handedly - to save them from global extinction.