Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes by Steve Morton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian desert ...Show more
Wildlife of Australia by Iain Campbell; Sam Woods
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Princeton Pocket Guides
Ideal for the nature-loving traveler, Wildlife of Australia is a handy photographic pocket guide to the most widely seen birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and habitats of Australia. The guide features more than 400 stunning color photographs, and coverage includes 350 birds, 70 mammals, 30 reptiles, ...Show more
My Heart Belongs to Nature : A Memoir in Photographs and Prose by John Nichols
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature
The Big Twitch: A True Story of Obsession, Adventure and Birdwatching by Sean Dooley
$26.99 AUD
Category: Nature
As a self-proclaimed twitcher--a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to catch a glimpse of as many species of birds as possible--the author took a year off in 2002 with the goal of seeing 700 birds and thereby breaking the national record for most birds seen in one year. In this ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Nature
''Sunlight and Seaweedis the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.'' AU Review Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our ...Show more
The Otters' Tale by Simon Cooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 'The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far' Richard Shelton, Times Literary SupplementWhen Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the ...Show more
Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
$27.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More ...Show more
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness - larger than most national parks - which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. In The Pine Bar ...Show more
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Speci ...Show more
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime a ...Show more
Urban Aviary: A Modern Glossary for the Cosmopolitan Bird Lover by Stephen Moss; Marc Martin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature
A unique guide to the unusual and often surprising birds that soar above our cities around the world. From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the C ...Show more