Wild Apprentice

Author: Sarah Roberts

Natural history (Children’s/Teenage)

Published on 12 March 2026 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 32 pages
299 x 223 x 12 | 458g

Learn all about the WILDEST jobs in the WORLD

Are you undeterred by mud, swamps, creepy crawlies and wild animals?

Would you like to delve into unexplored caves, traipse through

dense jungle or dive deep beneath the ocean's waves? Then this

is the book for you.

Written by wildlife expert and eco-journalist Sarah Roberts,

this epic guide to the many fascinating, adventurous careers

that exist in the world will have you frantically searching

for your passport and rummaging for your rucksack.

From big-wave surfers and marine biologists to palaeontologists,

explorers, sailors and wilderness

medics, you'll learn which

super skills are required, read words of wisdom from

real-life experts, and encounter fascinating facts,

astonishing animals, top tips and much more!