Wow, that looks amazing - quite fancy that myself! 
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Also ordering for my photographer husband, he’ll love this! Thanks for the recommendation - we should probably start a ‘great books’ thread! 
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It’s on my wishlist, too. She has a great YouTube channel which I really enjoy, worth searching for. Scottish winters don’t seem that bad in comparison….
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I recommend The Wager, a true story by David Grann, it was on the bbc between the covers prgramme and all the reviewer guests raved about it, my husbad is currently reading it and enjoying it. It’s a true tale of shipwreck mutiny and murder which reads like a thriller, timeline 1742. Any book written by Ben Macintyre is also a good read, true accounts of spitfire pilots, espionage during ww2 etc and they are always in the bestsellers list
I’m now glued to YouTube every Sunday! 
She’s really charming isn’t she? Not a channel where a lot happens, but fascinating to see such a different lifestyle where you can watch polar bears from your living room, even if it is only occasionally…
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It’s such a different way of life, isn’t it? I was so confused by her accent originally, then I saw her explain that her family had moved from Sweden to Ireland when she was 12 or so, and she was shoved straight into school, with no English. She went from 0 English to fluent in 3 months.
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I’ve got that book down on my own ‘to read’ list! I recently read ‘Madhouse at the End of the Earth’ by Julian Sancton and loved it - very similar thing, a non fiction about the Belgica being trapped in the Antartic. Sounds really boring, but I got totally swept up in it - definitely want to read The Wager too!
Thank you everyone so much for all your great suggestions, you’re amazing! I’ve bought dad ‘Utterly British Maps’ and think (hope!) he’ll enjoy it. Not too large or heavy to hold, not too much solid reading, nice and simple layout, and full of facts - just up his street! Thanks everyone x
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I’m pinching it off hubby when he’s finished it, looks very good. I’ve read quite a few books from the ‘between the covers’ bbc programme and some I’ve really enjoyed, a couple were boring but hey ho!
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