Coffee table books

Back from the Brink celebrates the remarkable resolve of innumerable people and institutions to save the ever-rising numbers of threatened species. This volume highlights twenty-five species through spectacular photographs accompanied by descriptive profiles that mention species' threats, causes for their decline and the remarkable efforts that have saved them from extinction.

Gorillas, the largest of the Great Apes, are the second closest relatives to humans after chimpanzees and bonobos and, while once regarded as ferocious beasts, are now considered by those who have studied them to be gentle giants. Because of its limited range, the Mountain Gorilla was the first to become the subject of considerable research study by field biologists and later by wildlife photographers and writers.

Birds of Dilmun is an account of the 330 bird species recorded in the Kingdom over the past 10 years. It brings together the latest information on the resident breeding species, summer or winter visitors and those birds which pass through Bahrain in spring and autumn on their annual migrations to and from east Africa, as well as the habitats of Bahrain and the places to go in order to see these birds.