Water voles are a newly endangered species. Through informative chapters ranging from the physiological and environmental to the water vole’s inclusion in myth, legend, art and literature, The Water Vole Book is an ideal guide to its subject for all nature lovers, beautifully illustrated throughout with brand new photography and artwork.

Sections include:

• What is a Water Vole?
• What do Water Voles Eat?
• Water Vole Life and Death
• The Vole Year
• Water Vole Reintroductions
• Myths, Art and Literature

Nature Book series: 

• The Puffin Book
• The Badger Book
• The Hedgehog Book
• The Robin Book
• The Red Squirrel Book
• The Bee Book
• The Owl Book
• The Fox Book
• The Hare Book
• The Native Pony Book
• The Beaver Book
• The Otter Book
• The Water Vole Book
• The Frog Book
• The Crow Book
• The Butterfly Book

Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. His first book, A Prickly Affair, was endorsed by Jeanette Winterson and Ann Widdecombe. In April 2014 Reaktion Books published his illustrated monograph on the iconography of the hedgehog and his later book Linescapes (2017) investigates the impact that the lines we make have on the capacity of wildlife to thrive. In addition to writing Hugh has engaged in public speaking, from primary schools to postgraduate research groups via the WI and Wildlife Trusts.