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Bees and Their Keepers - In Religion, Revolution and Evolution by Frank Perry (Translator); Lotte Möller
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and ha ...Show more
A Bird a Day by Dominic Couzens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The beauty and fascination of birds is unrivalled. Every day of the year, immerse yourself in their world with an entry from A Bird of Day, where Dominic Couzens offers an insight into everything from the humble Robin to Emperor Penguins, who are in the midst of Arctic storms protecting their young on 1 ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A work of bright and careful genius. Equal parts Rebecca Solnit and Annie Dillard, Giggs masterfully combines lush prose with conscientious history and boots-on-the-beach reporting. With Giggs leading us gently by the hand we dive down, and down, and down, into the dark core of the whale, which, she con ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
The Last Lions of Africa by Anthony Ham
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An incredible and moving account of one man's journey into the world of lions, why they are fast disappearing and what can be done to save them from extinction and thus save Africa, whose delicate ecosystem depends on these apex predators to keep everything in balance.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable a ...Show more
Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to Be Animals by Carl Safina
$39.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."--The Washington Post New York Timesbestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures--what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. ...Show more
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
Some Assembly Required - Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
$39.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth. Over billions of years, fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and ape-like primates changed into humans who walk on two ...Show more
Dinosaurs Rediscovered - The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their top speeds, and ...Show more
The Bee Bible: 50 Ways to Keep Bees Buzzing by Sally Coulthard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
We need bees. We rely on them not only to pollinate our planet but to sweeten our lives with the fruits of their labours - honey, beeswax, Royal Jelly. These tiny, hardworking insects have transformed our lives with their quiet diligence; fertilising much of our food, most of the wild plants we rely on, ...Show more