Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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team and discover the secrets of the animal kingdom as they reveal fascinating facts and killer statistics in their guide to fish, squid and jellyfish. Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit. 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. Containing brand new material from Steve Backshall, this is a fierce, fun and fact-filled compilation of quizzes, puzzle.

And then he found himself in the vast untamed wilderness of Papua New Guinea, experiencing the crushing lows and extraordinary highs of the BBC’s Lost Land of the Volcano expedition.The book is aimed at children about the age of 10 and above, as they will benefit most from being able to read it, though any person who enjoys this sort of interest in creatures that can kill you will get some enjoyment from it.

His fiction novel, Tiger Wars was the first in a series of four adventure stories, which was published in May 2012. He has presented on Earth Pulse on the National Geographic channel, as well as the popular BBC children. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. 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.From the nine-feet long Komodo Dragon through species such as the King Cobra, Lionfish, Fat-tail Scorpion and Poison Dart-frog to the diminutive but lethal Black Widow Spider, author Steve Backshall takes a fascinating look at the different types of natural venoms. Steve travels the world to learn about the most inspiring predators, from boxing mantis shrimp to charging tigers.

He tells of Karakoram, and the foothills around K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and the other Himalayan challenges of Lhotse and Cho Oyu, and of his climbing companion's fall into a crevasse on the trail of a snow leopard. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. National Geographic Channel International bought the resultant video and Steve was taken on as ‘Adventurer in Residence’, producing, filming and presenting adventure and natural history programmes. Packed with fascinating facts and drawing on Steve's own amazing experiences, this is the second fact-filled Deadly guid. Escaping the Clan takes Saker and Sinter on a deadly, dangerous journey through Vietnam, over the South China Sea back to Borneo.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He began his career working for the Rough Guides and freelance travel writing for various publications including The Independent and The Times. The following three years were awash with wildlife highlights; sharing a beach with 75,000 nesting olive ridley turtles, having a baby mountain gorilla take him by the hand and having a red-eyed tree frog leap into his face. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.