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London: Methuen, 1966. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
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London: Methuen, 1966. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2012. Octavo, paperback, This book taps into the restorative powers of the natural world to boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness; build smarter and more sustainable businesses, communities, and economies; and ultimately strengthen human bonds. Supported by groundbreaking research, anecdotal evidence, and compelling..... More
Mansfield: Insignis Publications, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. The author's adventures through South America over the course of 33 years are described in this book highlighting her experiences with parrots and other birds along with the people and the culture of this region. More
London: Vintage, 2014. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In her youth, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. Mares travels to the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt and southwest America and investigates the rodents, bats and other small mammals that are adapted to live in these harsh environments. More
London: Harper Collins, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Part of the New Naturalist series. The first chapter of this book considers the political and institutional development of nature conservation and reviews the physical and biological nature of Britain, its geology, climate and wildlife habitats. Subsequent chapters cover the loss of habitats..... More
Newbury: NatureBureau, 2016. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Naturalist Peter Marren presents a revealing memoir of his boyhood, boarding school and university years in this book, set in Germany, Singapore, the Midlands and Exeter. This tale of the trials and awkward initiations of growing up, and the redemptive power..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. Octavo, black and white illustrations. Marzluff and Angell portray creatures that are nothing short of amazing: they play, bestow gifts on people who help or feed them, use cars as nutcrackers, seek revenge on animals that harass them, are tricksters that lure birds to..... More
Chicago: Chicago University Press, (2002. second edition). Octavo, softcover. Pummeled by a century of drought, depopulation, and soil erosion, America's Great Plains are in dire straits. With farms closing left and right, large parts of the region now have about the population they had in frontier days. Frank and Deborah..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1967. first edition). Small folio, colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
London: Harvill Press, 2002. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. A chronicle of Peter Mathiessen's many journeys in search of the world's fifteen species of cranes. Describes the crane's struggle to survive in a rapidly developing world. Beautifully illustrated by Robert Bateman. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2003. Octavo, colour photographs. Fine copy in dustwrapper. "Peter Matthiessen is, of course, our greatest living prose-poet of landscape, wild creatures, and the fraught relations between humans and the rest of nature. With his expert eye and graceful voice, Matthiessen is the ultimate field trip..... More
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1997. Octavo, More
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, Could the Dodo make a comeback? Is giving up meat really the greenest option? Do birds make art? What do the Cold War and climate science have in common? This volume brings together great writing about life and the universe, including contributions from poets..... More
London: Natural History Museum, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, other illustrations, softcover. An exploration of natural history past, present and future drawing on the collections of the Natural History Museum, London and other sources. More
Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing nature the author explores the cause and effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a...... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Provides an account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful in our everyday lives and our societies. This book shows how evolutionary biology applies when we domesticate wild species for..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Monkey explores our relationship throughout history with this most playful and familiar of creatures. As humans, we tend to see monkeys as trivial or comic creatures; indeed our dictionaries define 'monkeying' as tampering, interfering and playing mischievous, foolish..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2001. Small octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, (2009. reprint). Small octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. Also available in paperback [stock..... More
London: Tempus Publishing, 2005. Large octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. Over the last 25 years archaeologists and historians have been increasingly aware of the importance of woodland in the developing British landscape. No one has devoted more research to this subject then Richard Muir. In this magisterial study, matched by numerous informative..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global stewardship: Earth..... More