Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future by Stephen Rutt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth, of breeding; a time to celebrate the abundance of nature teeming in our hedgerows, cities, marshlands and woodlands. But in the twenty-first century, 'summer' is becoming harder to define. The changing climate is bleeding our traditional distinctions ...Show more
Marsupials of Australia: Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos by John Calaby; Tim Flannery; Rosemary Woodford Ganf (Artist)
$1150.00 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Marsupials of Australia Ser.
This distinctive volume completes the artist's series Marsupials of Australia. It covers the superfamily of marsupials known as macropods, which range in size and habitat diversity from the largest marsupial of all, the Red kangaroo, to the smallest, the Musky rat-kangaroo. This is a signed edition of ...Show more
Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art by Penny Olsen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia — from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen, officers, convicts, settlers, n ...Show more
Magic of Mushrooms (Kew Gardens): Fungi in folklore, science and the occult by Sandra Lawrence, Sandra Lawrence
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Featuring images of over 100 species, this book explains the folklore, science and occult of fungi, showing that from saving lives to expanding the mind, the potential of these fascinating organisms should not be underestimated.
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' Sunday Times'What a joy! Patrick Svensson's sinuous weaving of natural history, philosophy, psychology and autob ...Show more
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans by Charles Clover
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature
A landmark, inspiring book showing that the best way to protect our seas is to stand back and let nature repair the damage, from the Co-founder of Blue Marine Foundation and one of the leading figures in marine conservation.'A game-changer!' - Margaret Atwood, Twitter'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree ...Show more
Birds: Poetry in the Sky by CHRISTIAN SPENCER
$99.00 AUD
Category: Nature
The fascination birds evoke in us continues unabated. Australian artist and photographer Christian Spencer, living in the vicinity of the Brazilian rainforest since 2001, has surrendered to it as well. "The camera is my brush," is how he describes his style. His photographs truly capture the poetry of n ...Show more
The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
$19.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago--nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet--humans have succeeded in changing the condit ...Show more
The Jewel Box How Moths Illuminate Nature s Hidden Rules by Tim Blackburn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of his London flat. Beautiful, ineffably mysterious organisms, these moths offer a glimpse into a larger order, one that extends beyond individual species, beyond lepidoptera or insects ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The classic bestseller of British nature writing Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
$59.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region.A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates, smugglers and evocatively named saints, somehow separate from the rest of our island...Few regions of Britain are as holidayed in, ...Show more
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here? -- Gabor Maté M.D. , author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts As our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruc ...Show more