Britain's Dragonflies Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash

ISBN 1-903657-04-0

Published by WILDGuides Ltd

http://www.wildguides.co.uk

RRP: £15.00. 168 Pages filled with dripping colour photographs. An exciting new fieldguide which is ideal both for the beginer and expert alike. The Derbyshire Dragonfly Book Reviewer, Dave Goddard raved about it. It is well worth a space on the bookshelf. It now gives the lover of Dragonflies the choice of three excellent fieldguides to help them enjoy their all consuming past time!

Field Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain 

Steve Brooks illustrated by Richard Lewington first published 1997 ISBN 0 9531399 0 5. 

Published by British Wildlife Publishing £18.95  

 A superb modern fieldguide with handbook detail which fits in the pocket. This book has the classic mix of an author who knows his subject inside out and one of Europe's leading insect illustrators. A must have in any Dragonfly enthusiasts library. Buy two and keep one in the car at all times!

A  Guide to Dragonflies of Great Britainby Dan Powell first published in 1999 ISBN 1 900159 01 5 Published  by Arlequin Press £11.95 This guide is useful in that it relates the 'jizz' of Dragonflies and Damselflies and complements the Brooks and Lewington book.This book is  regarded by Tim 'Mr White Faced Darter'' Beynon as the best Guide to have.

Derbyshire Dragonflies  by Roderick Dunn  published by the then Derbyshire Naturalists Trust forerunner of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust in 1984. This ground breaking guide which fired the enthusiasm of many of the county's enthusiasts of today is now long out of print. This booklet will soon be replaced by a book relating ten years of Field work  done by the Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Entomological Society

Atlas of the dragonflies of Britain and Ireland  by R Merritt, N W Moore and B C Eversham £15.95 published in 1995 by the HMSO and Natural Environment Research Council. A culmination of hours of recording by observers all over the UK. A superb piece of work showing the  then known distribution of the UK's Dragonflies. Well worth buying to give you a feel of the nation's Dragonfly population. A Derbyshire connection too with one of the authors being no less the former county recorder and  also editor of the  1983 second edition  Cyril Hammonds work  ' The Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland,' Bob Merritt.

For Dragon watching further afield in  Europe & USA

The Dragonflies of Europeby R R Askew first published in 1988 By Harley Books

ISBN  0 946589 10 0 £37 ish. A pricey tome but well worth a copy on the shelf. A new edition is due out soon in a ''field guide '' format which will fit in the pocket unlike this heavy tome.

Dragoning in USA.

Dragonflies through Binoculars A field Guide to the Dragonflies of North America by Sidney W. Dunkle published by Oxford University Press 2000 £20 This is a cracking guide covering all 307 species to be found over the pond. The maps and photos may appear small to some but hey there is a great deal of ground to cover!  

Dragonflies of the Florida Peninsula, Bermuda and the Bahamas  by Sidney W Dunkle  pub in 1989 and the  Damselflies of the Florida Peninsula , Bermuda and the Bahamas  by Sidney W Dunkle. pub in 1990. Great plates, good text. Well worth packing for that trip to Florida. Even Disney World has Dragons!

County Guides

Benten, E 1988
The DRAGONFLIES OF ESSEX The Essex Field Club.
Campbell, J M 1983 AN ATLAS OF OXFORDSHIRE DRAGONFLIES Oxfordshire County Council Dept of Museum Services.