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
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
Elephants: Birth, Life and Death in the Last Days of the Giants by Hannah Mumby
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Everything You Know about Animals Is Wrong by Matt Brown
23.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Everything You Know Is Wrong Ser.
All the stories and legends about animals we've heard since childhood are gleefully debunked in this hugely entertaining and informative book. You may think you know the truth about animals, but Matt Brown is here to set you straight. In his inimitable humorous style, Brown takes apart widely held misco ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Trees of Life by Max Adams
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A captivatingly informative and visually beautiful survey of the tree species - from all over the world - that human cultures have found most useful. Each tree species is the subject of a concise text centred on a story - or stories - about the tree in question, and is depicted by means of a photograph ...Show more
Flight Lines: Across the Globe on a Journey with the Astonishing Ultramarathon Birds by Andrew Darby
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Andrew Darby follows the extraordinary migratory shorebirds from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back. On these travels he explores the power of science to reveal the mysteries of these birds, and to heal both their endangered world - and unexpectedly - himself. As the sun lowered and turne ...Show more
Copsford by Walter J. C. MURRAY
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Walter Murray was a young man tired of living in the city. Early in the 1920s, he persuaded a Sussex farmer to rent him a derelict cottage, which stood alone on a hill, with no running water or electricity. Most of the windows were broken, it was dirty, dark and ran with rats. He bought a brush and pail ...Show more
The Wolf Within: A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog as an ancient and essential ally. While undoubtedly it was the ...Show more
Wilding - The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
27.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
Airline Maps by Mark Ovenden; Maxwell Roberts
42.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-colour reproductions of route maps and posters from the world's most iconic airlines From the first faltering flights over plains, water, and mountains to the vast networks of today, air travel has transformed the world an ...Show more