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A Future in Flames by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
No other continent on earth is a prone to bushfires, over such a large area, as Australia. Fires are a constant and ongoing part of our history, our ecology and our culture. Yet despite repeated disasters, across all states throughout the last two centuries, we seem to be no better at surviving bushfire ...Show more
Continent Of Curiosities by CLODE Danielle
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Collecting curiosities was a gentlemanly occupation for wealthy and educated 18th-century Europeans. Few creatures aroused more curiosity than those from Australia. But collections demand organisation, and classification itself reveals patterns to life that cannot be ignored. From a leisurely occupation ...Show more
From Dinosaurs to Diprotodons: Australia's Amazing Fossils by Danielle Clode
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Ever met a thingadonta or seen a fangaroo? What about a gigantic titanosaur or a mighty diprotodon? Come on an Aussie fossil adventure and explore prehistoric life down under. Discover amazing animals unique to Australia. Danielle Clode, the award-winning author of Prehistoric giants: the megafauna of A ...Show more
In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disgui ...Show more
Killers in Eden: The Story of a Rare Partnership Between Men and Killer Whales by Danielle Clode; Erich Fitzgerald (Contribution by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
For a century, the killer whales of Twofold Bay herded baleen whales towards the harpoons of local whalers, helping them hunt and sharing the rewards. It was a life of industry, adventure and a strange and rare partnership between whale and man. In Killers in Eden, Danielle Clode explores how this relat ...Show more
Koala: A Life in Trees by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Despite their iconic status and celebrity, koalas remain something of a mystery. Often affectionate in captivity, they seek out human assistance when in need of water or care yet can also be fierce and belligerent. They are beloved worldwide and feature in popular children's stories, but are also plague ...Show more
Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia by Danielle Clode
$24.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Museum Victoria Nature Ser.
Prehistoric Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon optatum roamed - this rhinoceros-sized diprotodon was probably the largest marsupial ever t ...Show more
Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea by Danielle Clode
$24.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Museum Victoria Natures Ser.
Step back to a time when Australia's red centre was flooded by a vast shallow ocean, the Eromanga Sea. While dinosaurs stalked the scattered islands that made up the Australian continent, giant marine reptiles ruled the waves. Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs swam in an inland sea filled with schools of amm ...Show more
The First Wave - Exploring Early Coastal Contact History in Australia by Gillian Dooley (Editor); Danielle Clode (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the ...Show more
The Wasp and The Orchid by Danielle Clode
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Have you met Mrs Edith Coleman? If not you must - I am sure you will like her - she's just A1 and a splendid naturalist.'In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith ...Show more
The Wasp and The Orchid: The remarkable life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
'[A] brilliant biography' Australian Women's Weekly' Undoubtedly a remarkable woman' Weekend Australian' Danielle Clode breathes life into the story of Edith Coleman... an approachable blend of biography, science, nature writing and social history.' Adelaide Advertiser In 1922, a 48-year-old housewif ...Show more