Jon Dunn is a natural-history writer, photographer and tour leader based in Shetland, who travels worldwide searching for memorable wildlife encounters. A childhood exploring the water meadows and abandoned orchards of the Somerset Levels and the droves and ancient woods of Dorset’s Blackmore Vale spurred a lifelong passion for all things natural history based. His Shetland home features otters on his doorstep, and summer evenings watching porpoises from the kitchen window. Once stalked by a mountain lion in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, he generally prefers experiencing wildlife on his own terms and not as part of the food chain.jondunn.com / @dunnjons

Dunn’s descriptions of his “orchidaceous treasures” are wonderfully vivid and his account of his travels is full of amusing anecdotes … This is a beautifully written celebration of these mysterious and endangered plants that will delight orchidophiles and nature lovers alike

Jon Dunn is a natural-history writer, photographer and tour leader based in Shetland, who travels worldwide searching for memorable wildlife encounters. A childhood exploring the water meadows and abandoned orchards of the Somerset Levels and the droves and ancient woods of Dorset’s Blackmore Vale spurred a lifelong passion for all things natural history based. His Shetland home features otters on his doorstep, and summer evenings watching porpoises from the kitchen window. Once stalked by a mountain lion in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, he generally prefers experiencing wildlife on his own terms and not as part of the food chain.jondunn.com / @dunnjons

Dunn’s descriptions of his “orchidaceous treasures” are wonderfully vivid and his account of his travels is full of amusing anecdotes … This is a beautifully written celebration of these mysterious and endangered plants that will delight orchidophiles and nature lovers alike

Jon Dunn is a natural-history writer, photographer and tour leader based in Shetland, who travels worldwide searching for memorable wildlife encounters. A childhood exploring the water meadows and abandoned orchards of the Somerset Levels and the droves and ancient woods of Dorset’s Blackmore Vale spurred a lifelong passion for all things natural history based. His Shetland home features otters on his doorstep, and summer evenings watching porpoises from the kitchen window. Once stalked by a mountain lion in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, he generally prefers experiencing wildlife on his own terms and not as part of the food chain.jondunn.com / @dunnjons

Dunn’s descriptions of his “orchidaceous treasures” are wonderfully vivid and his account of his travels is full of amusing anecdotes … This is a beautifully written celebration of these mysterious and endangered plants that will delight orchidophiles and nature lovers alike