Jonathan Scott Boeken

Jonathan and Angela Scott's Safari Guide to East African Animals is a great compilation of information and award winning photography.

Big Cat Diary is a television phenomenon. From its inception in 1996 it grew steadily in popularity, until it attracted audiences of up to seven million. In autumn 2008, in the BBC Natural History Unit’s most ambitious outside broadcast ever, it went live for the first time and recorded two million visitors to its website in the course of transmission.

Sets out to bring the experience and challenge back into the observation of wildlife. Scott, a past winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, invites readers to feel the tension and anticipation of watching, waiting and exploring Africa's vast and diverse landscape. Accompanied by a local expert, the author travels to six distinctive parts of by air over the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania; canoeing down the Zambezi; travelling from the penguins and seals of Namibia's cold coast to find desert rhinos in the semi-desert wilderness of the interior; going in search of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Reserve; discovering the wild dogs and big cats of the Okavango in Mombo, Botswana; and finally, following an elephant safari through the Okavango Swamp, Botswana's delta region.

A companion volume to the successful "Big Cat Diary" television series, which goes beyond the day-to-day footage and explores the bigger history, biology, behaviour, conservation and how lions survive outside the Masai Mara. As well as a detailed examination of biology and behaviour, the book provides an historical perspective of the big cat families featured in the series. The book also looks outside the Masai Mara Game Reserve, to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Ngorongoro Crater, and Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Finally there is the question of how to conserve our big cat populations. There could be as few as 15,000 lions left in Africa. How can we ensure they can maintain breeding populations, space to hunt and sufficient prey to survive?

Focusing on the beauty and diversity of Earth's ecosystems, this fine art wildlife photography book showcases stunning imagery from savannas, forests, deserts, mountains, oceans, and polar regions. Jonathan and Angela Scott aim to evoke a sense of wonder and urgency regarding environmental preservation. Building on the success of their previous volume, they continue to highlight the importance of protecting our planet's wild places, reminding readers of the delicate balance of nature and humanity's role in its survival.

The second part of this intellectual biography delves deeper into the life and ideas of Algernon Sidney, an influential English republican. It explores his political philosophy, commitment to liberty, and the impact of his writings on the republican movement. Through detailed analysis, the book examines Sidney's contributions to the concepts of governance and individual rights, highlighting his significance in the context of 17th-century political thought. The narrative offers insights into his legacy and enduring influence on modern republicanism.

Weaving together the discovery stories of explorers such as Cook, Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen, with the ecological stories of whaling and sealing, fishing and climate change, man's impact on this magnificent continent is revealed. For such an austere, frozen, and inhospitable environment, Antarctica is in fact a surprisingly fragile Eden.

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Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos. In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2--a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box.

The story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl.In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing feat that we all take for granted today--the domestication of sound. Thomas Edison's phonograph, the first device that could both record and reproduce sound, represented an important turning point in the story of recorded sound, but it was only the tip of the iceberg, and came after decades of invention, tinkering and experimentation. Scott traces the birth of sound back to the earliest serious attempts in the 1850s, celebrating the ingenuity, rivalries and science of the modulated groove.He examines the first attempts to record and reproduce sounds, the origins of the phonograph, and the development of commercial shellac discs. Then he divulges the fascinating story of the LP record, from the rise of electric recording to the fall of 7-inch vinyl, the competing speed and format wars, and an epilogue that takes the story up to the present-day return of vinyl to vogue.Into the Groove uncovers tales of intrigue and betrayal, court battles and lesser-known names who are often left out of most histories. Discover a new appreciation of the not-so-simple black disc that holds a special place in the history of music and sound.