Honey and Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness by Piers Moore Ede
$24.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
After being seriously injured in a hit-and-run, Piers Moore Ede goes to an organic farm in Italy to recuperate. There, a beekeeper shows him the magic of the beehive and Piers, depressed since his accident, realises that honey might be his salve and salvation. This is the story of his quest to seek out ...Show more
Sweetness and Light : The Mysterious History of the Honey Bee by Ellis Hattie
$27.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The history of the world from a bee
Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola : A Whole Lot Of Stuff About Birdwatching by Sean Dooley; Matt Clare (Illustrator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Everything you wanted to know about bird watching but didn't know who to ask (in a convenient A-Z format).
A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials by Christopher Dickman
$85.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials deserves an extraordinary book and at last it is here; wide and generous in its view and up-to-date in its science and accessible in its style. This book combines a comprehensive coverage of all Australian marsupials by a highly respected academic, resear ...Show more
A Slice of Organic Life by Sheherazade Goldsmith
$49.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Find your own slice of the 'The Good Life'. Bake bread. Start a wormery. Shop locally. Plant a tree. Find out how to get closer to the soil, without going the whole hog. Discover 80 simple, eco projects you can dip in and out of, from growing salad on your window-sill, to collecting rainwater. Pick up w ...Show more
Wildwood : A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks an ...Show more
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
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
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinkin ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Seashore by Keith Davey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Photographic Guides Ser.
A companion for those who wish to visit Australia's ocean shores at low tide to identify the creatures found there. It provides identification of 250 common species found between the low-tide and high-tide mark on rocky shores, as well as a sample of some sand and muddy shore inhabitants.
The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat by Juliette De Bairacli Levy
$26.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Dog and cat owners are becoming increasingly concerned about the saftey of processed pet food and the possible side-effects of over-use of antibiotics and hormone treatments. This new edition, thoroughly revised and updated, covers Natural Rearing, herbal medicine and disease prevention.
Harpoon : Into the Heart of Whaling by Andrew Darby
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
How can it be that, 20 years after whaling was 'banned', whales continue to be harpooned? How does Japan get away with bribing small nations to vote to reintroduce commercial whaling? Come on a global journey to follow the whalers, the campaigners, and the whales themselves, in a balanced handbook on th ...Show more
Charles Darwin - An Australian Selection by Pulman, Felicity
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Charles Darwin found much in Australia to challenge and inform his thinking. This book explores the impact that Darwins short visit to Australia in 1836 had on the man himself and on the emerging nation. Now, more than 170 years later, Darwin continues to infl uence Australian attitudes to life and livi ...Show more