★The most memorable pictures from the world’s leading wildlife photography competition
★Previous retrospective collections, including the best-selling 50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, have together sold over 25,000 copies in the UK

This landmark volume presents the most memorable and beautiful pictures from six decades of the world’s most prestigious wildlife photography competition.

Featuring more than 240 images, with 40 from the last five years, this sumptuous edition presents many of the greatest nature photographs of all time. It charts the development of nature photography from the first hand-held cameras and the colour-film revolution of the 1960s to the increasingly sophisticated photographs of wild animals, plants and unexplored places that are taken today.

Technological innovations introduced in the last decade include automatic focusing and fast burst rates, which are ideal for capturing motion, as well as aerial drone photography and macro probe lenses, which allow for photography at the largest and smallest scales.

An incredible variety of styles, skills and approaches are on show, reflecting the great advances in technology and the many and varied ways of viewing and interpreting the natural world. Prize-winning pictures on display include groundbreaking portraits, breathtaking aerial shots, other-worldly underwater imagery, revelatory close-up exposures and much more.

Rosamund Kidman Cox

Rosamund Kidman Cox is an editor, photo editor and writer specialising in wildlife and the environment. Previously Editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine for more than 20 years, she’s been involved in Wildlife Photographer of the Year formore than four decades.

•Putting it all in context
•In the beginning
•The rise of the competition
•The art of seeing
•Down to eye level
•A sense of place
•And then there was light
•The moment
•Wild spaces
•Natural design
•The white canvas
•Faster and faster
•The portrait and the pose
•Remote design
•The tiny things in life
•And then there was night
•Telling a story
•Back to black and white
•Aerial exposure
•The underwater revolution
•The passion of youth
•The final message