A book of colour photographs intended as a celebration of the New Forest and its wildlife. Through the changing seasons it covers the giant oaks, deers, ponies, fox cubs, badgers, pigs, woodpeckers, owls, rare orchids and butterflies. It also includes some of Eric Ashby's early wildlife photographs and a record of the injured and orphaned foxes which he and his wife have cared for as well as unique photographs of badger families in the artificial set he has constructed. The author is known for his TV film The Unknown Forest .