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
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature
'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Goregous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there ...Show more
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, Observer A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned s ...Show more
The Australian Bird Guide: Revised Edition by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: CSIRO
A new in-depth field guide to Australian birds The Australian avifauna is large, diverse, and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive habitats and evolutionary history. Looking at more than 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide on Australian birds avail ...Show more
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cen ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'can we doubt ...that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length o ...Show more