Doug Allan / Portrait of wildlife cameraman Doug Allan in freezing conditions. Kong Karl's Land, Svalbard, Norway, March. Freeze frame book plate page 71. Model released.

Markus Varesvuo / Portrait of a Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) juvenile with spread wings. Spain, November. Magic Moments book plate, page 148-149.

Markus Varesvuo / White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) being attacked by a Common Gull (Larus canus) in flight. Norway, July. Magic Moments book plate, page 50.

Markus Varesvuo / White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) being attacked by a Common Gull (Larus canus) in flight. Norway, July. Magic Moments book plate, page 51.

Markus Varesvuo / Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) on snow with wings spread. Raahe, Finland, March. Magic Moments book plate, page 76.

Niall Benvie / Photograph of flowering Burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga) manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Photograph of flowering Restharrow (Ononis sp)manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Hairy St John's wort (Hypericum hirsutum) manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Blackthorn blossom (Prunus spinosa) manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Doug Allan / Emperor penguins diving {Aptenodytes forsteri} Antarctica. Emperor penguins are the bird diving champions and can acheive a depth of 500m. Humans can only descend 150m before the water pressure collap...

David Tipling / The Conference of the Birds byHabiballah. Detail from page of a manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds) by Farid al-Din Attar, circa 1600, Safavid, Isfahan, Iran.

Jussi Murtosaari / House Pseudoscorpion (Chelifer cancroides) on page of book for scale, central Finland, May.

Doug Allan / Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) spy-hopping to observe a Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophagus); the whales are in search of Weddell Seals. Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, summer. Freeze Frame book p...

Doug Allan / Killer Whale (Orcinus orca), member of a pod searching for Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) among sea ice. Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, summer. Freeze Frame book plate page 118-119.

Doug Allan / Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) spy-hopping to observe Crabeater Seals (Leptonychotes weddelli); the whales are in search of Weddell Seals. Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, summer. Freeze Frame book p...

Doug Allan / Sheets of broken ice floes with two Adelie penguins (Pygocelis adeliae); the sea ice reflects heat while the open sea absorbs it, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Freeze Frame book plate page 110

Doug Allan / Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on the slopes of active volcano. Zavodoski Island, South Sandwich Group, Antarctic. Freeze Frame book plate page 157.

Doug Allan / Flayed body of a penguin being thrashed by a Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). Antarctic Peninsula, February. Freeze Frame book plate page 184.

Doug Allan / Colonies of Chinstrap and Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) on the slopes of active volcano, Zavadovski Island, South Sandwich group, Antarctica. Freeze frame book plate page 154.

Doug Allan / Pancake sea ice, Signy Island, Antarctica. This is formed when slabs of ice that are forming are jostled by the wind and or movement of the sea. The pancakes of ice bash against each other around th...

Doug Allan / Frost flowers created by small amounts of water freezing on top of newly formed sea ice, Borge Bay, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, July, Freeze Frame book plate page 79

Doug Allan / Iceberg floating in front of smoking volcano. Zavadovski Island, South Sandwich group, Antarctica. Freeze Frame book plate page 153.

Doug Allan / David Attenborough (left) and Doug Allan filming in Svalbard, Norway, for BBC Life of Mammals series, summer, Freeze Frame book plate page 7

Jeff Rotman / Capuchin monkey (Cebus sp) turns the page of a book. The monkey is trained to be a companion and assistant for its owner, who has physical disabilities, and it can perform many simple tasks on request...

Markus Varesvuo / Red Kites (Milvus milvus) fighting over caught prey in flight. Spain, November. Magic Moments book plate, page 49.

Markus Varesvuo / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) adult in flight. Spain, November. Magic Moments book plate, page 115.

Markus Varesvuo / Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) hunting voles in snow-covered landscape. Kuusamo, Finland, February. Magic Moments book plate, page 83.

Markus Varesvuo / Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) flying through snow-covered branches. Raahe, Finland, March. Magic Moments book plate, page 77.

Markus Varesvuo / Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) drinking water from a pool. Hungary, May. Magic Moments book plate, page 43.

Markus Varesvuo / Flock of Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) taking flight. Helsinki, Finland, October. Magic Moments book plate, page 129.

Markus Varesvuo / White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) with a fish (surplus catch) taken from the sea surface. Norway, July. Magic Moments book plate, page 62.

Markus Varesvuo / Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) chasing Ravens (Corvus corax) above snow. Utajsrvi, Finland, January. Magic Moments book plate, page 134.

Markus Varesvuo / A flock of Common Crane (Grus grus) in flight. Liminka, Finland, April. Magic Moments book plate, page 125.

Markus Varesvuo / A flock of Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) taking flight in late evening light. Helsinki, Finland, October. Magic Moments book plate, page 133.

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Alpine penny-cress (Thlaspi caerulescens) manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Alpine rock-cress (Arabis alpina)manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Doug Allan / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) swimming under whale-watching boat, Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific, September 2006. Freeze Frame book plate page 40.

Paul D Stewart / Illustartion of series of primate skeletons, the frontis engraving by Waterhouse Hawkins from the first edition of Huxley's 1863 'Evidences as to Man's Place in Nature'. In this book Huxley presented...

Paul D Stewart / Great Argus Pheasant feather (Argusianus argus). Composite photograph of Argus secondary wing feather left and right Fig 56. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Rela...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Prof. Darwin' coloured lithograph by Faustin Betbeder, with original Shakespeare quotes in text below. Front page of the 'Figaro' paper N. 475, London Wednesday February 18th 1874. It...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Extinct Animals that once lived where Paris now is' an anonymous lithograph opposite page 21 from the American Children's book 'Wonders of the Earth Sea and Sky' 1837 written by Peter Pa...

Paul D Stewart / 1858 illustration of marine monsters by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Plate 23, to face page 33, of the New Edition, postumously published, of William Buckland's 'Geology and Mineralogy' - part of the...