Become a nature activity adventurer! Get expert tips on rock and fossil hunting and try over 30 cool projects. Create an amazing crystal creations in a grapefruit skin or an earth-shaking volcano. Also includes a handy spotter's guide, showing you how to identify rocks, mineral and fossils you might find in your own backyard!

About the Author

DK Guide to Mammals author, Ben Morgan, is a freelance science editor and writer who has contributed to more than 50 books and magazines on science and natural history. After graduating in biology from Oxford University, he became Assistant Editor of the Royal Society's Science and Public Affairs magazine before becoming freelance. He works regularly on the BBC's flagship natural history titles and worked as a Senior Editor with the team that originated the DK Guides series in 1999. He produced the DK Guide to Space and the DK Guide to Weather, both of which won the Junior Science Book Prize. He is author of Dorling Kindersley's DK Guide to Birds, The Human Body Revealed and Steck Vaughn's forthcoming Atlas of Tropical Grasslands.