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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
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
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
The Oak Papers by James Canton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Oaks are born and die on the same patch of earth. It is that sure-footedness that is so appealing. Ancient oaks hold a powerful sense of the longevity of life. The sense of security, of attachment to place, enchants us. You can stand beneath a grand oak and know that your more distant ancestors did so t ...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.
A Lifetime in Galapagos by Tui De Roy
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe aboard a banana boat, bound for the Pacific to lead a different sort of life on Galapagos, one of self-sufficiency and living close to nature. She grew up on the islands and returned to them often over the next five decades. Discovering photo ...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
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
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 mis ...Show more
The Orchid by Lauren Gardiner; Phillip Cribb; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Staff (Contribution by)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Captivating, beautiful, incredibly diverse and often elusive, orchids can be found in nearly all environments, ranging from sea level to an elevation of almost 5,000 metres. Victorian plant hunters scoured the globe for new species to bring back for botanical gardens and private collectors; "orchidmania ...Show more