Wild Gatherings - Quirky Collective Nouns of the Animal Kingdom by Matt Sewell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
"Most groups of wildlife can be described as a flock, herd, or shoal--but where is the fun in ending there?" -- from the Introduction Whether you're an animal lover or a grammar geek, illustrator Matt Sewell has the perfect menagerie of beasts (and beast-related terms) for your reading pleasure. Along w ...Show more
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Clare Horatio
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arcti ...Show more
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trust ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life)Written in diary format, The Woodis the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, Th ...Show more
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee m ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$24.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 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 ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
A Sting in the Tale (The Birds and the Bees) by Dave Goulson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. As a small boy, Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife - from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments with taxide ...Show more
A Single Swallow : Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
$29.99 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, w ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
$48.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
When wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght was a young Peace Corps volunteer in the Russian Far East, he caught a brief glimpse of a Blakiston's fish owl. It was the furthest south the species had been documented in over a hundred years, and a chance encounter that would change his life. In Owls of the E ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more