Collins New Naturalist Library

About the author

Professor Stefan Buczacki is equally well known as the presenter of many hundreds of radio and television gardening programmes and as one of the country's most experienced non-fiction authors with well over fifty published titles on natural history, gardening and biography, many for HarperCollins. He is a graduate of the Universities of Southampton and Oxford and holds distinctions and awards from many scientific societies as well as honorary degrees.

George Peterken has worked independently for the Forestry Commission and others since 1992 while living in the Lower Wye Valley, where, with his neighbours, he has developed local community grassland conservation projects. He has specialised in woodland ecology and conservation for the Nature Conservancy, amongst others. He is currently president of the Gwent Wildlife Trust and an associate professor of Nottingham University. In 1994, George was awarded an OBE for services to forestry.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Buczacki, Buczacki Stefan, George Peterken
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9780008531492
• ISBN: 978-0-00-853149-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 222 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Collins New Naturalist Library
• Subjects: NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items