The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
From Adam Nicolson, winner of the Wainwright Prize 2018 Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its comp ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
Wild Seas To Greenland : A sailing adventure with ocean racer Ross Field by Rebecca Hayter
$42.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
A sailing adventure with ocean racer Ross Field, written by well-known New Zealand yachting journalist Rebecca Hayter. When New Zealand ocean racing skipper Ross Field retired from professional sailing, he was already looking for his next, unusual adventure. In a dusty boatyard in France, he bought a 2 ...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
Ocean - Pocket Eyewitness by DK
$13.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans | Series: Pocket Eyewitness Ser.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Earth's oceans in one pocket-sized, easy-to-read guide.Nearly 97 per cent of our planet's water is held in the vast oceans that teem with life. This incredible book on oceans for children aged 9-12 uses stunning images and clear artworks to reveal the secrets of ...Show more
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
$50.00 NZD
Category: Environment
The story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that covers one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomi ...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
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 Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to ...Show more
Rivers by Peter Goes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children's
This breathtaking journey along the most important rivers in the world takes us from the Nile to the Amazon, the Mekong Delta to the Mississippi, the Murray to the Waikato. Our seas and rivers tell a compelling story about our planet. Through tracking the life source of people, animals and the land its ...Show more