A struggle for survival: the elephant problem.
London: Country Life Books, 1979. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Country Life Books, 1979. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Nedlands: UWA Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. This excellent guide provides for the first time a comprehensive information on the the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the south-west of Western Australia before European settlement. The authors have recorded information on over 90 of the..... More
Perth: UWA Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Before the colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal Australians lived on a wonderful larder of fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat, in a land largely free from disease, with more exercise, less stress and supportive communities. Today, in Aboriginal communities all over Australia, there..... More
Nambucca Heads: Gwen Harden Publishing, (2018. second edition), Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. A field guide to the rainforest trees and shrubs of Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative characters. Most traditional floras or identification guides to plants use flowers and fruits as the main means of identification..... More
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 2001. Quarto, spirally bound, photographs, softcover. Identification guide no. 37. More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Octavo, softcover. An essay on the environment and our place in it. Presages the tenuous state of our environment and our place in it. As our technical abilities have moved forward, our judgment has not kept pace. "What we call natural resources cannot..... More
Colchester: Harley Books, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Volume ten: Noctuidae (part two) and Agaristidae. More
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Volume one: Micropterigidae-Heliozelidae. More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs, tables, softcover. This volume assesses the status of amphibian decline and extinction in Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal. Experts from each country contribute a chapter describing the ecological background and the conservation status of affected species, with an emphasis..... More
London: Ray Society, 2007. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. 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..... More
Oswestry: Anthony Nelson, 1985. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oswestry: Anthony Nelson, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. The nocturnal songs of insects are lures and warnings, full of risks and rewards for these tiny competitive performers. What moves crickets and katydids to sing, how they produce their distinctive sounds, how they hear the songs of..... More
Lerwick: The Shetland Times, 1984. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Potts Point: Hordern House, 2003. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800. With 2,327 articles, 4,000 cross-references, indexes of ships and persons (7,500 entries) and bibliographies (about 20,000 citations). Part..... More
[No place of publication]: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1979. Quarto, wrappers, text illustrations, signature. Working papers from the Rockefeller Foundation Conference, March 31- April 5, 1978, Bellagio, Italy. More
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (2023. third edition, revised), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Marine plants of Australia is fully referenced and has numerous descriptions and line drawings, detailing many of the intricacies of this surprisingly complex group of plants. It is be an invaluable identification guide. This..... More
Ramsbury: Crowood Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Immensely exciting and rewarding, high magnification photography can produce striking images, and show small creatures in amazing detail that usually goes unnoticed. This book is both a practical guide to each step of the close-up process, as well as a source of..... More
Kensington: WA Naturally Publications, 2005. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. The author has worked with Western Australia's national parks and wildlife for his entire life. More
Carnarvon: Author, 1971. Oblong format, colour photographs, spirally bound, softcover. More
Sacramento: W. W. Shannon, 1906. Octavo, four chromolithographs, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, stained, otherwise a very good copy. More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Take a close-up look into a world you cannot see with the naked eye. Bugs are usually so small that we hardly notice them, let alone think of them as living beings. But call upon the magnifying glass, and a shapeless..... More
Kent Town: Wakefield Press, (2018. second edition), Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white text illustrations. South Australia's grasses have been carefully drawn, including more than 450 line drawings and 20 coloured paintings illustrating typical members of each tribe. More