I Was the Ultimate Wild Child ; Foxes Under the Sofa. Snakes Behind the Bookcase. Badgers in the Kitchen... A New Book by the Renowned Wildlife Filmmaker Simon King Recalls His Adventures As an 11-Year-Old Suburban Tarzan [Eire Region]

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As a wildlife filmmaker, the BBC's Autumnwatch presenter Simon King has captured some of the most spectacular animal footage ever taken. But in his heartwarming and candid memoirs, Simon, 46, who lives in Somerset, England, with his wife, Marguerite, and their daughter, Savannah, three, reveals that his early interest in wildlife involved a very long-suffering mother...

Siiiimonnn...! What on Earth is that dreadful smell?!' The aroma had, by now, crept into every corner of the house, including my mother's bedroom, where she was trying to take a well-earned break.

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I Was the Ultimate Wild Child ; Foxes Under the Sofa. Snakes Behind the Bookcase. Badgers in the Kitchen... A New Book by the Renowned Wildlife Filmmaker Simon King Recalls His Adventures As an 11-Year-Old Suburban Tarzan [Eire Region]

I had left the badger's head to simmer in a pan in the kitchen while I returned to my bedroom to get on with the more pressing task of skinning a common shrew I had found that morning during my walk through the local woods. Maybe I'd been neglecting the badger a little, but I'd felt the longer it bubbled away, the easier it would be to peel away the fur and expose the skull beneath, which was the ...

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