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Field Notes From A Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In writing that is both clear and unbiased, Kolbert - an acclaimed New Yorker journalist - approaches global warming from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, the North of England, Holland and Puerto Rico, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws fr ...Show more
Field Notes from a Catastrophe : A Frontline Report on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s, yet little has been done to halt it. The threat, if we fail, is nothing less than catastrophe - the flooding of coastal communities, the extinction of species and entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the ...Show more
Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
$36.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, Nation ...Show more
Lost Fish: Anthologies of the Work of the Comte de Lacepede by Elizabeth Kolbert
$120.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Classics
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of today's leading environmental journalists.
The Arctic: An Anthology by Elizabeth Kolbert (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
The Arctic features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole.
The Ends of the Earth : An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (Boxed set of 2 hardcovers) by Elizabeth Kolbert & Francis Spufford (eds)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
"The Ends of the Earth" is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic.Contributors include: Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Ha ...Show more
The Sixth Extinction - An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant ...Show more
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a bil ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READMeet the biologists trying to save the ...Show more
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