Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin by David J. Mabberley
$100.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book - with many never-before-published images - reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and ...Show more
The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed by Helen Scales
$24.99 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this worl ...Show more
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histo ...Show more
Life On Earth 40th Anniversary Edition by Sir David Attenborough
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Anniversary Ed.
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's meeting with gorillas was one of the most unforgettable moments for millions of television viewers. With Life on Earth, Attenborough created a book and TV series that became a benchmark of q ...Show more
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
$77.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That's right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you'll find out how. The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy - The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insect ...Show more
How Zoologists Organize Things - The Art of Classification by David Bainbridge
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover how categorisation has shaped our view of the natural world with How Zoologists Organize Things. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
The Natural History of Canterbury by Michael Winterbourn
$75.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The expansive third edition of The Natural History of Canterbury provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account of knowledge of Canterbury's flora, fauna and environment. Written with a broad audience in mind, it will be an invaluable resource for natural scientists, students, environmental managers, and ...Show more
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans by Geoff Norman
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fauna
This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement, specially photographed and reproduced in full colour using high qual ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
$35.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Penguin Press Science
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the YearWhat is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. ...Show more
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the ...Show more