Tony Soper

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Tony Soper (born 10 January 1929) is a British

Life and career

Soper was educated at Hyde Park Elementary School and at Devonport High School for Boys, both in Plymouth. He joined the BBC at 17 as a "youth-in-training", subsequently graduating by way of studio manager to features producer in radio, then moved into television. Among the radio programmes he produced were Birds In Britain.

Soper co-founded the

As Expedition Leader and a pioneer of wildlife cruising, he spent twenty years between 1992 and 2012 exploring both polar regions. He holds a British Yachtmaster's certificate and is a qualified compressed air, oxygen, hard hat diver.

Soper's wife Hilary is a wildlife painter, and they have two sons.

Honours

He is a recipient of the British Naturalists' Association Peter Scott Memorial Award.^[1]

DVDs

A single 23-minute episode of Wildtrack is available as a bonus feature on the DVD and Blu-ray release of David Attenborough's 1979 series Life on Earth.

Bibliography

(incomplete)

• The Bird Table Book (1965, several editions to 2006)
• The Shell Guide to Beachcombing (1972)
• Wildlife Begins at Home (1975)
• Everyday Birds (1976)
• Wildlife of The Dart Estuary (1982)
• Discovering Birds (1983)
• Penguins [with John Sparks] (1987)
• A Passion For Birds (1988)
• Owls [with John Sparks] (1995)
• Wildlife of the North Atlantic (2008)
• The Arctic: A Guide to Coastal Wildlife (2012)
• The Northwest Passage (2012)
• Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife (2013)^[2]

References

External links

• Tony Soper's Home page

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