Lake District Natural History Walks: Case notes of a nature detective by Christopher Mitchell, Sigma Leisure, £8.95, ISBN 1850588074 Reviewed by Ed Douglas
WANT to know where in the Lake District you can find otters, how rabbits chew trees and why ants build their nests on the top of crags? Christopher Mitchell explains all this a walking guidebook that is well researched, engagingly old fashioned and deeply satisfying. Mitchell loves solving puzzles, natural or man-made, and knows that walking is as good for the brain as it is for the heart.
