Living Planet by David Attenborough
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt t ...Show more
Cloud Spotter - 30 Cards to Keep You Looking Up by Marcel George (Illustrator); Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Pause for a moment and look up at the skies. There is ever-changing beauty to behold in the cloudscape. Learn the difference between common cloud types (do you know your cirrostratus from your cumulonimbus?) and find out which is most likely to herald the arrival of the rains or approaching fair weather ...Show more
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' Sunday Times'What a joy! Patrick Svensson's sinuous weaving of natural history, philosophy, psychology and autob ...Show more
The Brumby Wars: The battle for the soul of Australia by Anthony Sharwood
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destr ...Show more
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. 'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane 'The journal of a writer to compare to Thomas Ha ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$27.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes. Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us.In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, c ...Show more
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut - essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire us. "What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindn ...Show more
Beachcombing: A guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere by Ceridwen Fraser
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squid, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces of planes or rockets ... Beaches are our windows to th ...Show more
Monarchs of the Sea - The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An epic and fun history spanning from the mollusks that invented swimming to the octopuses and other intelligent cephalopods of today. Before mammals, there were dinosaurs. And before dinosaurs, there were cephalopods--the ancestors of modern squid, octopuses, and more creatures--Earth's first truly su ...Show more
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori
$50.00 NZD
Category: Botany | Series: Around the World In 80 Ser.
An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are int ...Show more