Adventurer & Natural History Presenter
The book that follows the hit BBC TV series. Find out whether an alligator snapping turtle or a Great White shark has a bigger bite, hear behind the scenes tales, and learn about what it takes to film deadly animals in the wild.
Buy Steve Backshall's Deadly 60.
Steve’s great passion is inspiring others to get outside and get interested in wildlife and the Great Outdoors, and in this 'How To’ guide, he comes up with a thousand suggestions for doing just that. From learning how to catch crayfish and cook up a meal from nature’s supermarket, to learning about tracking, and from kayaking with seals to rock climbing to see peregrines. It’s the perfect handbook to our wild world.
Buy Steve Backshall's Wildlife Adventurer's Guide.
Venom is a study of the world’s most poisonous creatures, it explodes the myths, examines the science, and contains a breakdown of what the world’s most venomous creatures really are, with a continent by continent list of toxic treats.
Steve was an author for the Rough Guides, and was a writer on the guides to Indonesia and SE Asia.
Buy Rough Guide to Southeast Asia.
Buy Rought Guide First Time Asia.
Public Speaking
With a presence on mainstream and kid’s television, Steve has several prepared talks available for after-dinner, motivational and presentational speaking.
Talks for businesses focus around achieving goals on some of the hardest expeditions ever attempted; such as the first ever ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, where Steve and his team camped out on the vertical cliffaces of the peak, before finally summitting and going in search of new species. His talk will relate how expedition leaders must confront their fears, identify their weaknesses, learn to trust absolutely in those around them, and keep their heads while all around them are losing theirs. He also dips into the finer points of team dynamics and selecting a team. Steve’s presence in the media of television as a developer of ideas, producer, editor and director means he has a broad sweep of understanding not just of expeditions, but of the commercial world, and knows how to provide a talk that will be meaningful and tailored to your event. There is obviously an infinite amount of high quality film and photographic imagery to back up the talk.
Talks for younger audiences tend to be highly interactive, often with exotic animals brought along for the children to meet, and lengthy question and answer sessions. These talks also contain huge amounts of images and film footage.
Previous talk subject examples:
Ways I nearly Died
Ideas to save the Planet
The Adventure Naturalist
Get Outside!
Creatures You’ve never heard of
The Greatest Dives of the World
