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Ice - Tales from a Disappearing Continent by Marco Tedesco; Alberto Flores D'Arcais (As told to)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
One of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history. Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow res ...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
Extraordinary Old Dogs: Uplifting True Tales of Remarkable Seniors by Laura Greaves
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Puppies are wonderful, but there is something truly special about an old dog. It's the grey muzzle and salt-and-pepper eyebrows; the face that says 'been there, sniffed that.' It's the plodding gait; the long naps in the sunshine; the undiminished wonderment at the beauty of the world. And more than any ...Show more
Beneath the Night by Stuart Clark
$33.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of ...Show more
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction' William DalrympleA captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain, from a brilliant debut writerThere is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a ...Show more
Metazoa : the Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
How You Feel - The Secret Workings of the Sensing Body by James Tresilian
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Close your eyes and ask yourself, 'what do I feel?' You might feel thirsty or tired. You might feel healthy and well or perhaps a little under the weather. Maybe you can feel that you are standing or that you are leaning over. You may also feel the world around you - the shape and texture of an apple i ...Show more
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
The Human Age - How Humankind Created a New Geological Epoch by Gisli Palsson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Human Ageis an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in which human beings have become the driving forces that mould, transform and destroy Earth. Where natural occurrences once controlled clima ...Show more
Bird Migration by Ian Newton
$33.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. Migration is shown by many kinds of animals, inc ...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