The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Happened by Andrew Marr
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the ...Show more
New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Volume 3 by Dennis P. Gordon
$35.00 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: Very Good
This volume is the third in the trilogy that provides a review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes list ...Show more
New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Vol 2 by Dennis P Gordon
$35.00 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: Natural History
This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes w ...Show more
The Dinosaur Hunters: In Association with the American Museum of Natural History by Lowell Dingus
$59.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The "Dinosaur Hunters" tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs, from the eighteenth-century interest in sea dragons to present day work with DNA, through the men and women who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge. Through the inclusion of 15 facsimile documents, rare photographs and m ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$36.99 NZD
$42.00 (11% off)
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
In Search of the Great Tuskers by Johan Marais
$47.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In Search of the Great Tuskers is Johan Marais' quest to find the greatest living tuskers on the African continent. Johan's journey takes him from the Kruger National Park and the Tembe Elephant Park in Southern Africa, to the Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania and the Amboseli and Tsavo National Pa ...Show more
The Lie of the Land: An Under-the-field Guide to the British Isles by Ian Vince
$29.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting - as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car journey, the features of our green and pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, and he began to delv ...Show more
A World Without Bees by Alison Benjamin; Brian McCallum
$28.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."--Albert Einstein From Los Angeles to London, from Slovenia to Taiwan, honeybees are dying. In America alone, one in three hives was left lifeless at the end of 2008; in France, the death rate is clos ...Show more
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day by Carrie Gibson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: 16
In October 1492, an Italian-born, Spanish-funded navigator discovered a new world, thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson, unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands - largely indepe ...Show more