John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds by Sue Taylor
$49.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
In 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology, visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869), Gould named, for the first ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"Carson's book has changed the world". ("The Times"). Impassioned, poetic and brilliantly written, "Silent Spring" is now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In it, Rachel Carson exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread and indiscriminate use of pe ...Show more
Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his thought tree? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. For some, the garden ...Show more
Owls of the World A Photographic Guide by Mikkola Heimo
$69.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo ...any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. "A Zoo in My Luggage" ...Show more
How the Dog Became the Dog: from Wolves to Our Best Friends by Mark Derr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. Th ...Show more
Kangaroo by John Simons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
Almost every animal carries a symbolic meaning for humans - in the case of the kangaroo it is that of peculiarity and strangeness, a reputation that throughout history has led to a troubled relationship between mankind and marsupial. Written in a lively and approachable style, Kangaroo relates the story ...Show more
What Bird is That? by NEVILLE CAYLEY
$59.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The first edition of Neville W. Cayleya's WHAT BIRD IS THAT? was published in 1931. Cayleya's aim in creating this work was to make available a book that would encourage and help people to learn about and appreciate Australia's remarkable and unique birdlife. He saw and resopnded to a need for a simple ...Show more
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter by Miriam Darlington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Over the course of a year, Miriam Darlington travelled around Britain in search of wild otters; from her home in Devon to the wilds of Scotland; to Cumbria, Wales, Northumberland, Cornwall, Somerset and the River Lea; to her childhood home near the Ouse, the source of her watery obsession. Otter Countr ...Show more
Eucalypts: A Celebration by John Wrigley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Murray Fagg | Reading Level: General Adult
'The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman's ground in England cannot excel in beauty those which nature presented to our view.' First fleet surgeon Arthur Bowes Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. We have farmed them and us ...Show more
Water by David Lewis Feldman
$26.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Polity Resources Series
Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles ...Show more
What I Don't Know About Animals by DISKI JENNY
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have l ...Show more