Television naturalist Iolo Williams picks his favourite forty from the many nature reserves in Wales. From the Great Orme to Magor Marsh, from Oxwich on the Gower to Gronant Dunes, Williams criss-crosses Wales. His list includes coastal sites from estuaries to inaccessible cliffs plus Skomer and other islands valleys, mountains, meadows, bogs, woods and former industrial land.

These wild places vary in size from Lake Vyrnwy to Kenfg, squeezed between Porthcawl and Port Talbot steelworks. They include sites of international signifcance, like Cors Caron, and the managed beauty of Cosmeston Lakes Park near Barry.

The entry for each site includes a description of what it to be found there, a brief list of the facilities, accessibility and directions. Illustrated in beautiful detail and with glorious images of the site by Wales top nature photographers, Wild Places is an invitation to enjoy the delights of natural Wales, from the armchair or, more importantly, at the forty sites Williams has selected

Wild Places Wales by Iola Williams