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Bat by Tessa Laird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stoker's Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-feeding bats pollinate important crops like agave; fruit ...Show more
Bee by Claire Preston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Claire Preston's Bee tells the busy story of our long, complex relationship with this industrious, much-admired insect. Moving from ancient political descriptions to Renaissance debates about monarchy, to the conversion of the virtuous and civil bee into the dangerous swarm of the Hollywood horror flick ...Show more
Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent (The Animal Stars #6) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Animal Stars | Reading Level: 9+
Jackie French's critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australia's dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian 'rubbish dog' who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. This is a story about the first dingo. It is als ...Show more
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal S.
A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries. Macdonald pr ...Show more
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$21.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp ...Show more
Goat Who Sailed the World, The (The Animal Stars #1) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Animal Stars Ser.
Captain Cook's goat had already sailed around the world before it went on its first voyage with Cook, and helped save everyone on board the ship from scurvy. As well as telling the story of this less-than- famous goat, the book looks at the great sea explorations of the eighteenth century, including Coo ...Show more
Kingfisher by Ildiko Szabo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Kingfishers are a stunning sight to behold. The dash and verve of these cosmopolitan birds has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia, and cultural iconography, and they were once valued as highly as gold. Artists used their iridescent feathers in Tian-tsui, an iconic ...Show more
Nightingale by Bethan Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of ...Show more
Parrot by Paul Carter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
One of the more nonconformist figures in the animal kingdom, the parrot is linked to humans by its ability to speak—a trait many have found unsettling, though this discomfort is offset by its gorgeous plumage, which makes it one of the most popular members of the avian family. Unlike previous studies th ...Show more
Polar Bear by Margery Fee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling carnivore on earth, these white-furred, black-skinned giants can measure up to three meters in length and weigh up to fifteen hundred pounds. They are also iconic in other ways. They are a symbol of the climate change debate, with their s ...Show more
Robin by Helen F. Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
A tuneful natural and cultural history of this globally renowned songbird. The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a British national treasure and a bird with a global reputation. In this superbly illustrated account, Helen F. Wilson looks at many aspects of the cherished ro ...Show more
Sheepology - The Ultimate Encyclopedia by Ilaria Demonti; Camilla Pintonato (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Farm Animal Ser.
Welcome to the wonderful world of sheep! Sheepology is filled with incredible sheep facts told in a playful tone by Ilaria Demonti, with endearing illustrations by Camilla Pintonato. Discover all there is to know about sheep in all their woolly glory in Sheepology, a delightfully illustrated guide e ...Show more