A Tree A Day by Amy-Jane Beer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
The beauty and power of the world's trees is timeless. Our appreciation of one of the oldest forms of life is particularly relevant in our age of climate concern. Immerse yourself in the world of trees with a tree a day - illuminating tree folklore, botany, tree uses, beauty and history.From the strengt ...Show more
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated co ...Show more
Rewilding the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city by Claire Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
We're a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibil ...Show more
Fungi - Gems of Nature by Joanna Bentley (Editor); Peter Roberts; Shelley Evans
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Gems of Nature Ser.
Fungi introduces you to 75 fascinating fungi from around the world.
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Climate
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword By Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a lo ...Show more
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Canons
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respect ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our ho ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
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
Bees and Their Keepers - From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the Pooh by Lotte Moller
$45.00 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
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
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Liv... by Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.; Christian Ziegler
$34.99 AUD
$54.99 (36% off)
Category: Natural History
In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how sele ...Show more