Antarctic Wildlife - A visitor’s guide to the wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage a

I've been lucky enough to have been sent a review copy of a forthcoming guide to Antarctica wildlife by naturalist / conservationist / photographer James Lowen. The book is entitled "Antarctic Wildlife - A visitor’s guide to the wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage and Beagle Channel" and is published by WILDGuides. Sample pages of the new guide are to be found at: https://www.wildguides.co.uk/our-titles/all-titles/antarctic-wildlife-a-visitor-... . The book will be published in the northern spring. From a quick perusal it seems to me that this outstanding book will become the best portable guide to Antarctic wildlife.

For those not familiar with WILDGuides, they are a publisher worth patronising, not just because many of their guides are the best available for field identification, but also because profits from sale go to conservation NGOs - in this case "Save the Albatross Campaign".

Earlier this month I got to test this book in earnest, in the field, and was very impressive: as far as I know it is now the best portable guide to identifying Antarctic wildlife. The other book that I found very useful - though as a cabin reference rather than a field guide - was Shirihai's Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife. Chester's Wildlife Guide to Chile also came in handy, as did Jaramillo's Birds of Chile (though the latter is missing some of the commoner birds of the Drake Passage, like Soft-plumaged Petrel). Lowen's book is out at the end of next month.