Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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It is packed full of facts about the animals and their habitats, and the survival mechanisms that they employ. Create your very own Deadly adventure with Deadly TV presenter Steve Backshall's first ever interactive 24-page full col. Steve has completed many endurance events; finished in the top third of the field in the Marathon Des Sables, the top ten of UK’s Tough Guy, 5th in the Welsh 1000m peaks marathon and completed the Devizes to Westminster kayak race.

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. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.He has just six months to travel to six continents and find 60 of the deadliest creatures on the planet for the 26-part Children's BBC series of the same name. What would you rate out of ten because we know you like but it would be better for opinion of stars so people can know that it is worth getting? He has presented on Earth Pulse on the National Geographic channel, Springwatch and the primetime BBC series The One Show. Each location brings its own epic challenges - whether it's the first climb of an arctic ice fall in Greenland, the first recorded navigation of a South American river, or the first exploration of the world’s longest cave system in Mexico.

Steve’s outdoor sports CV includes having climbed the sixth highest mountain in the world (Cho Oyu 8201m) as well as many other ascents around the globe. Deep in the jungle, they're reunited on their most daredevil and audacious mission yet, to save the endangered orangutans before they become ghosts of the forest. 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 third Deadly factbook for Stev. He began his career working for the Rough Guides and freelance travel writing for various publications including The Independent and The Times.Escaping the Clan takes Saker and Sinter on a deadly, dangerous journey through Vietnam, over the South China Sea back to Borneo. Packed with fascinating facts and drawing on Steve's own amazing experiences, this is the second fact-filled DEADLY guid. He illustrates his tips with examples of his own detective work on land and in the water from tropical rainforests to the African Savanna, from the Arctic tundra to the desert. And if that wasn't enough, in ‘The Venom Hunter’ he endured the stings of hundreds of bullet ants (the world’s most painful stinging invertebrate) in an initiation ceremony.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Please note, this is a reissue of Steve Backshall's Deadly 60, formerly on the natural history list of New Holland publishers.

Deadly 60 gives each of the creatures a rating for their deadliness according to their size, speed and weapons. Each creature has a two page spread with photos and details listing why they made it onto the list, some quite surprising, others you would expect.

He is absolutely passionate about rock and ice climbing and all disciplines of kayaking and cycling. s. series The Really Wild Show and the primetime BBC series The One Show and the Expedition series, where he visited remote places such as Guyana, Alaska, St Kilda and Borneo.

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