Brian Jackman

Wild About Dorset is a new collection of nature writing from award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman. Drawing on a decade’s worth of monthly columns in his local community magazine, Jackman paints a ‘year in the life’ of wildlife and wild places in West Dorset’s Area of Outstanding Natu...

‘Don't send him to Torremolinos; it's not his kind of tundra.'

Such was the mantra of The Sunday Times when considering assignments for Brian Jackman, for whom deserts, rain forests and mountain ranges have always been more enticing habitats.

After decades spent travelling and writ...