Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world by Erica McAlister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Insects are incredibly weird. Their morphology is about as alien to us as you can get without leaving this planet. They outnumber us 200 million to one. Before humans stamped their mark on this planet, insects had shaped it into the colourful and extraordinary world we all share today.Whether it’s the a ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Reed Concise Guide - Trees of Australia by Jones David L
$16.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
This is the latest exciting addition to our growing series of concise field guides. The ultimate keep-in-your -pocket guide to Australian trees, it may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 350 images. The introduction includes cha ...Show more
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals by Satyajit Das
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitati ...Show more
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 9th Edition by G Pizzey, F Knight, S Pizzey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Reading Level: General Adult
Bird guide that records the various species and population distribution of birds in Australia, first published in 1980. This 7th edition includes over 750 revised distribution maps, over 2500 large individual bird portraits and revisions to 26 colour plates, including 5 species illustrated for the first ...Show more
Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis by Veronica Strang
$69.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic — and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-coloured, feathered or horned serpents, giant anac ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K Le Guin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Earthsea | Reading Level: very good
A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage S ...Show more
Backyard Chickens Beyond the Basics by Pam Freeman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
A must-have for every backyard chicken keeper, Backyard Chickens Beyond the Basics goes beyond introductory lessons and explores the realities of raising a flock for eggs -- and entertainment, of course! From odd eggs and molting to feeding and preparing for the seasons, this book covers the subjects be ...Show more
The Complete Language of Trees: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia Ser.
The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees. The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive and neatly organized dictionary of over 400 types of trees that recognizes each species' name, characteristics ...Show more
Cool Chickens by Fern Collins (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Uncover all that is interesting about chickens from facts about breeds, to poetry, jokes, and sayings with this comprehensive guide! Did you know that chickens are the closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus-Rex? Did you know that Alektrophobia is the name given to "the fear of chickens" or, that ...Show more
The Curious World of Seahorses: The Life and Lore of a Marine Marvel by Till Hein
$44.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the ocean’s most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant.'When God created the seahorse,' says one marine biologist, 'he may have had one too ...Show more
Reed Concise Guide Spiders of Australia: Reed Concise Guide by Melissa L Volker W; Thomas Framenau
$16.99 AUD
Category: Insects
This is one of the latest titles in our exciting new series of concise field guides. It is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket guide to Australian spiders. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 200 images of all the species mos ...Show more