Much of it is personal and anecdotal, an account of life and wildlife in remote places; uninhabited seabird haunts such as the gannet-covered Bass Rock and two of the Galapagos Islands. The erstwhile lovely desert oasis of Azraq (Jordan) with its swamps and crystal-clear pools thronged with wildlife was earmarked to become a Desert National Park but brutal Middle-Eastern politics intervened. 

 

There is a lot about the Indian Ocean Christmas Island, the sole breeding place of the jungle-nesting Abbott's booby and the Christmas Island frigatebird. The incredible guano islands of Peru with their millions of cormorants, pelicans and boobies claim their place, as does New Zealand's dramatic Cape Kidnappers with its Australasian gannets. 

 

You get the idea; island-living and seabirds predominate.