Wild About Dorset is a new collection of nature writing from award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman. Drawing on a decade of columns in his local community magazine, Jackman paints a 'year in the life' of wildlife and wild places in West Dorset's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the author's home for fifty years.

Brian Jackman's distinguished career in journalism, a lifetime spent writing about wildlife and the world's wild places, has earned him a reputation as one of the pioneers of ecotourism. He may be best known as Britain's foremost writer on African wildlife safaris, but his first love has always been the countryside around his home in West Dorset where he has lived for the past 50 years - and this beautiful book is his tribute to its unique landscapes and rich natural history. An award-winning journalist and author, Jackman's books include The Countryside in Winter, Wild About Britain, his autobiography West with the Light: My Life in Nature, The Marsh Lions (with Jonathan Scott) and Savannah Diaries (the last four all published by Bradt). He worked forThe Sunday Times for twenty years, but now writes principally about nature and travel for The Daily Telegraph.