Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries by Douglas Palmer
$44.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, fe ...Show more
Tree of Rivers by John Hemming
$39.99 NZD
$58.00 (31% off)
Category: Natural History
This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, ...Show more
Living in A Warmer World: How a Changing Climate Will Affect our Lives by Jim Salinger
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Living in a Warmer World goes beyond the debate over how and why, and describes what is actually happening as our world gets warmer. Readable, relevant and fascinating, in Living in a Warmer World, Dr Jim Salinger brings together some of the world's leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is ...Show more
Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marria ...Show more
The Great British Year: Wildlife Through the Seasons by Stephen Moss
$59.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Britain is a place of remarkable beauty and surprising extremes: nowhere else in the temperate world boasts such extreme variety in such a small area. Our humble island has over 10,000 miles of coastline; iconic animals and birds; and unique spectacles of migration that see wildlife from all corners of ...Show more
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present by Carrie Gibson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
This is a definitive history of the Caribbean by a brilliant young historian. 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' first la ...Show more
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren consider ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
This is from the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015. Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is r ...Show more
Our Planet by Alastair Fothergill; Keith Scholey
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX original documentary series. With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet, take us ...Show more
Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Mark O'Shea
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Lizards of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these creatures, profiling more than 100 lizard families with fascinating commentary and stunning photography.
Fossil Men: the Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of "Ardi," a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White--"the Steve Jobs of ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
$65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journ ...Show more