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
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
48.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
When wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght was a young Peace Corps volunteer in the Russian Far East, he caught a brief glimpse of a Blakiston's fish owl. It was the furthest south the species had been documented in over a hundred years, and a chance encounter that would change his life. In Owls of the E ...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
Salmon: A Fish by Mark Kurlansky
43.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
29.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...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
Around the World in 80 Trees, paperback by Jonathan Drori
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan ...Show more
The Stonemason: An Insider's History of Britain's Buildings by Andrew Ziminski
38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Andrew Ziminski is a stonemason living and working in what was ancient Wessex. He has three decades of hands-on experience with the tangible history of this country, including raising stones at Stonehenge, the restoration of roman ruins in the City of Bath and work to save some of our most important med ...Show more
The Honey Bee by David Cramp
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Beekeeper David Cramp explores the origins and evolution of man's only truly wild, food-producing livestock, the extraordinary complexity of the hive and honey-making process, the mysteries of the life of the queen, workers and drones and their sophisticated language and navigation systems. The Honey Be ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods: Of mushrooms and mourning by LONG LITT WOON AND BARBARA HAVELAND
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
Evolutions - Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman; Ofra Kobliner (Illustrator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder'Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning ...Show more