Simon King was born in Nairobi, but moved to the UK in 1964 and has been working as a natural history film-maker for almost thirty years Simon has worked on programmes such as Big Cat Diary and Blue Planet and presents Springwatch and Autumnwatch He has traveled to every continent and lived in extreme conditions from remote desert to Arctic and Antarctic wilderness With characteristic honesty and charm, Simon King weaves his animal stories amongst encounters with extraordinary people, and astonishing places to give us this memoir