The Deadly World of Bugs, Snakes, Spiders, Crocodiles and Hundreds of Other Amazing Reptiles and Insects: Discover the Amazing World of Reptiles and ... Wildlife Photographs and Illustrations - Hardcover

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Barbara Taylor studied environmental sciences at Southampton University before becoming a science editor and writer at London's Natural History Museum. She is now a writer and editor specialising in children's information books. Barbara has won several awards, including, for Crocodiles (in the Lorenz Books Nature Watch series), the Key Stage 2 non-fiction category of the English Associations 4-11 awards for the best children's illustrated books of 2000. Barbara Taylor's published works include; Butterflies & Moths (Dorling Kindersley); Kingfisher Young Knowledge: Insects (Kingfisher); Bug Zone series (Chrysalis Children's Books/Anova Books); Animal Close-ups series: Frogs and Snakes & Insects (Oxford University Press). Dr Jen Green received her doctorate from the University of Sussex (Dept of English and American Studies) in 1982. She worked in publishing for 15 years, as an editor and later editorial director (1981-1996). Since then she has worked full-time as a writer. She has written or contributed to over 150 books for children, including: Natural History Animal Encyclopedia (Dorling Kindersley); E-Encyclopedia (Dorling Kindersley); Learn About [3 titles]: Birds; Insects; Rainforests (Lorenz Books); Nature Watch [3 titles]: Wolves & Wild Dogs; Beetles & Bugs; Social Insects (Lorenz Books); Franklin Watts Library of the Oceans [2 titles]: Hunters and Monsters; The Cold Seas; Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians (Marshall Cavendish); and Animal Families [4 titles] Kangaroos; Ostriches; Prairie Dogs; Wolves (Grolier). John Farndon studied Earth science at Cambridge University, UK. Since then he has written a host of books and articles on a wide range of science subjects and has been shortlisted three times for the Copus Science Book Prize, for books such as How the Earth Works (Dorling Kindersley) and The Book of the Brain (Hodder). His speciality remains Earth science and he is the author of the Dictionary of the Earth (Dorling Kindersley), Rocks and Crystals (Sterling), Rocks and Minerals (Benchmark Books) and e-Guides Rock and Mineral (Dorling Kindersley). Show on AI? Yes Jacket Credit? Yes Role in Book - Author Mark O'Shea is probably best known as the presenter of 36 adventurous natural history films, the best known being the four-series' of "O'Shea's Big Adventure" on Animal Planet and "O'Shea's Dangerous Reptiles" on Channel 4. He is also the Consultant Curator of Reptiles at West Midland Safari Park, his base since 1987. Mark has written scientific papers and five books on reptiles, contributing chapters to several other volumes, and he also presents a series of lectures on the subject. In the course of over 50 expeditions and field studies worldwide, including Amazonian surveys for the Royal Geographical Society, snakebite research for Oxford University's Dept. of Clinical Medicine and as Biological Director of Raleigh Executive Expeditions, he has made considerable contributions to our understanding of reptiles and snakebite. Mark is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Explorers' Club of New York, a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and the past-President of the International Herpetological Society. In 2000 he joined astronaut Buzz Aldrin, polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes and mountaineer Chris Bonnington as a recipient of one of nine Millennium Awards for Service to Exploration from the British Chapter of the Explorers' Club of New York. In 2001 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Sciences from the University of Wolverhampton in recognition of his contributions to herpetology.