Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Now in paperback, this is Thor Hanson's critically-acclaimed natural and cultural history of nature's finest invention. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, and beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period and leads through the development of flight to high fashion - fro ...Show more
Mosquito by Richard A. Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
Lots of insects suck blood, but one species above all others has a reputation for this, out of all proportion to its size: the mosquito. Due to the diseases they carry and inject, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal. The most deadly of these diseases is malaria, which ...Show more
Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals by DK
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: DK Nature Guide Ser.
Have the world in your hands with these compact, affordable, illustrated natural history guides. From malachite to meteorites, leaf through "Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals", a beautiful guide profiling the world's specimens. Part of a new generation of compact natural history guides, "Rocks and Mineral ...Show more
The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us by Diana Beresford Kroeger
$19.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Trees provide shelter, medicine and food. They are part of our imaginations, folklore, ecosystems and our lives. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a world expert on trees, has woven together ecology, myth, horticulture, spirituality and science to show how their future is ours. From hedgerows that contain an ent ...Show more
What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamowitz
$27.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A captivating journey into the inner lives of plants — from the colours they see to the schedules they keep. How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut — can it feel an insect's spindly legs? How do roses know when it's spring — do they remember the weather? Now, in What a Plant Knows, renowned bio ...Show more
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Five years after "Findings" broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents "Sightlines". The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to "Findings", prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jami ...Show more
Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet by Eugene Linden
$19.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans - how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy? For forty years, environmental journalist and author, Eugene Linden, has travelled ...Show more
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee
$22.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, are things we either ignore or take for granted. It wouldn't enter our heads therefore to set off around the world in search of moonlight. But, as James Attlee's eccentric quest proves, we couldn't be more wrong. From Normandy to Naples, Wales to Ar ...Show more
Natural Horse Care by Pat Coleby
$21.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
This is the guide to looking after your horse in a reliable, natural and inexpensive way and in excellent health. In NATURAL HORSE CARE, Pat Coleby includes up-to-date information on the natural care and management of horses. She explains the important roles of correct feed rations, vitamins and mineral ...Show more
Kangaroos by Terence J. Dawson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
This book provides a clear and accessible account of kangaroos, showing how their reproductive patterns, social structure and other aspects of their biology make them well adapted to Australia's harsh climate and demanding environment. Since the last edition of this book nearly 20 years ago, much more i ...Show more
Karrawirra Parri: Walking the Torrens from Source to Sea by Mike Ladd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"The sun warms the right side of my face. Monarch butterflies, with their stained-glass wings of black and white and brown, mate in the air above me. Soursobs and Salvation Jane are flowering on the shale outcrops. The stream is an always-superb composition of chance; smooth water and riffles, crimson h ...Show more
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. And it is the story of th ...Show more