Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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Charlie, aged 9, and Evie, aged 6, from Ludham Primary School dressed as Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Miss Sunshine.

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A wide variety of insects, reptiles and amphibians use toxins to subdue their prey or to stop becoming prey to another predator. I’m lucky to work alongside a lot of those young would-be activists who frankly have already achieved more than I will do in my entire career. Saker is a member of the Clan, a clandestine group offering child renegades for hire to the highest bidder.Alongside insisting that swimming must be learned as young as possible, Backshall’s parents gave him the gift of nature and travel. Separated by blizzards and avalanches, lost in a breathtakingly beautiful but deadly frozen Arctic wilderness, suffering from frostbite and hunger, listening to the wolves howl and the packs draw closer, it seems that this time they cannot possibly live to tell their tale. Backshall recently went upstream with campaigners from River Action, an environmental charity, and tested the river outside the treatment works.

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Join him as footsteps, feeding habits and even a pile of pooh reveals snow leopards, crocodiles, gators, snakes and polar bears, while closer to home you can track foxes, squirrels, badgers and birds, using exactly the same techniques. Back home, at his idyllic eco-house beside the Thames, the naturalist and presenter of the phenomenally popular Deadly 60 television series is wrestling with a rather less appealing apparition: the sewage flowing down the river. Including the renowned, the unexpected and the downright bizarre, this companion book to Steve Backshall's high adrenaline tour of the world's most deadly is not to be missed. Steve also took part in a brutal caving expedition opening up new passage in Mageni Cave in New Britain. Saker and Sinter escape by the skin of their teeth when their plan to sabotage a billionaire businessman plundering 'black gold' (natural oil and gas) and hunting wolves in the remote Yamal peninsula in North West Siberia goes disastrously wrong.But something happens to make Saker change sides and now he’s on the run from his predatory brothers. Deadly 60 has become a phenomenon – its roadshows draw massive crowds – and Backshall has gone way beyond the original 60 animals. And if that wasn't enough, in ‘The Venom Hunter’he endured the stings of hundreds of bullet ants (the world’s most painful stinging invertebrate) in an initiation ceremony. He has just six months to travel six continents and find 60 of the deadliest creatures on the planet for the 26-part Children's BBC series of the same name which will air on BBC 1, CBBC, Discovery and Animal Planet channels. Steve's encounters range from famous killers such as the Black Mamba and the North American Grizzly Bear to less well known but no less deadly animals.

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He has published several books, Venom, Deadly 60, The Wildlife Adventurer’s Guide, and Looking For Adventure. It all began after a rainy-day visit with his family to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea. He presented three-part nature documentary series, Lost Land of the Volcano, in 2009 and Lost Land of the Tiger, in 2010. Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit.As they rescue tigers or mountain gorillas, thwart shark finners and cyanide fishers, rainforest exploiters and canned hunters, they come face to face with the world’s most fascinating, majestic and lethal creatures. Steve Backshall’s new book, Deep Blue: My Ocean Journeys, begins with a waltz beneath the waves off Vancouver Island off the coast of Canada. Also an author, he has written numerous nonfiction books and a fiction series, The Falcon Chronicles. I realise that there are certain animals that people have a universal fascination for, and they are generally the ones we perceive as being able to do us harm,” he says. He worked there for five years before moving to BBC where he began presenting the children wildlife show, The Really Wild Show.

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Steve Backshall joins Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson writing the best adventure fiction with his third adventure in the gripping Falcon Chronicles, filled with intrigue, adventure, exotic wildlife and dramatic locations. They are the source of 97% of the world’s water and yet we know vanishingly little about their depths: 90% of the world’s fish live in the twilight zone from 200m to 1,000m and yet, astonishingly, three-quarters of the world’s water is below this depth.He meets fifteen year old Sinter, a spoiled rich girl, who is running away from an arranged marriage and their uneasy friendship will eventually form an unshakeable bond, as together they face adventure and danger as two young eco-warriors in a truly threatening world. Jack, Polly and Annabelle from Corton Primary School in Lowestoft dressed as Diary of a Whimpy kid, Mary Poppins and Goldilocks. 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. The infectious enthusiasm of the host of the wildly popular children’s television show Deadly 60 has educated a generation.