Winter Prey

Discover nature's most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was, twice over and in two separate areas, one of the most renowned musical figures of the 20th century. Beginning at age seven, he was a celebrated performing prodigy, with a level of technical development and an understanding of music that awed such giants of the musical world as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who delighted in his prodigious talent. Greeted in such circles as a new Mozart, from his teens until his thirties Korngold was the author of a series of compositions – orchestral works, operas (most notably Die Tote Stadt), and chamber works – that were uniquely popular and among the most critically acclaimed of their era.

Walking with Beasts is a 2001 six-part television documentary produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and the original Discovery Channel broadcast was narrated by Stockard Channing.

At 79 North latitude, the weather is brutal and competition to survive is fierce. Binne, a female polar bear, shares this stark landscape with the arctic fox, Svalbard reindeer, the sibling vole and the rock ptarmigan. But during the ten short summer weeks, this stark landscape becomes her hunting ground for her favourite meal - filled-filled seals.