Salmon country: a history of the Pacific salmon.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. More
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Oil and wilderness in Alaska: natural resources, environmental protection, and national policy dynamics.
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, maps. Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book examines three significant national policy reform efforts that came out of these conflicts: the development of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the..... More
Planning Melbourne: lessons for a sustainable city.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Over the past decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward and upward with an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050. With so much growth, planners and policymakers..... More
Remarkable plants that shape our world.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. This book explores the rich histories, significance and uses of over 80 key plants in 69 entries, revealing our relationship with them, both utilitarian and aesthetic, and their multiple benefits and cultural associations. Lavishly illustrated and organized thematically, eight sections cover..... More
Botanical sketchbooks.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations, photographs. While highly finished drawings and paintings feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and..... More
Tundra plovers: the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers and grey plover.
London: T & A D Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. WAS $115. Examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden and Grey Plovers. There are four species of tundra plover: the Grey Plover, and the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers. They breed only in..... More
Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland.
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or that have been introduced..... More
Pond and brook: a guide to nature in freshwater environments.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Designed specifically for the amateur naturalist and filled with hands-on-projects and activities. More
Tooth and claw: living alongside Britain's predators.
Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Based in the heart of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, Peter Cairns is a freelance nature photographer with a deep fascination for our relationship with the natural world. In addition to documenting Europe's high-profile wildlife species, his work focuses on a diverse..... More
A history of birdwatching in 100 objects.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Explores the artworks, books, inventions and technology that have influenced how people have watched, studied and engaged with the avian world. With entries from all over the world, subjects include an Egyptian 'field guide' [early tomb decorations of birds, identifiable..... More
Slugs and snails.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. New Naturalist # 133. Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the..... More
Spider monkeys: the biology, behavior and ecology of the Genus Ateles.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings, black and white photographs. Spider monkeys are one of the most widespread New World primate genera, ranging from southern Mexico to Bolivia. Although they are common in zoos, spider monkeys are traditionally very difficult to study in the wild, because..... More
Otters: return to the river.
Edinburgh: Birlinn General, 2014. Octavo, oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This book is a celebration of the return of the otter to Britain's rivers and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline in the last century. For more than two decades, award-winning photographer Laurie Campbell has documented these lithe, elusive predators..... More
Ecosanctuaries: communities building a future for New Zealand's threatened ecologies.
Dunbeath: Otago University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Over the past ten years many communities all over New Zealand have launched ambitious projects to bring native ecologies back to the mainland. By building predator-proof fences around big areas of land the aim is to protect native flora and fauna..... More
Freshwater turtles of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles is complex and a number of species are of particular..... More
Field guide to grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets of the United States.
Ithaca: Comstock, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations, maps. This field guide introduces readers to the biology, behaviour, and ecological significance of one of the most obvious (abundant, large, and colorful) and important (ecologically and economically significant) insect groups in North America, the order Orthoptera. A simple, illustrated identification..... More
The avifauna of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Birdwatching Society, 2001. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, diagrams. A detailed analysis of the status and distribution of each species in Hong Kong, with comparisons made with data collated as far back as 1861, allowing assessment of status and distribution changes that have occurred... More
Seashells.
New York: Abrams, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do, as well as looking at the exotic and the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. Photographs by Josie Iselin... More
Zebra stripes.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now..... More
So excellent a fishe: a natural history of sea turtles.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Originally published in New York by Scribner, for the American Museum of Natural History, around 1967. More
Conservation and biodiversity banking: a guide to setting up and running biodiversity credit trading systems.
London: Earthscan Publications, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and businesses to promote conservation is..... More
The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works and why it matters.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, other illustrations, map. Here, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to simple yet profoundly important questions such as how does life work? How does nature produce the right..... More
Parrot.
London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Paul Carter's Parrot is a fascinating natural and cultural history of parrots. It covers three broad areas: 'Parrotics' - the historical, cultural and scientific classifications of parrots; 'Parroternalia' - the association of parrots with the different language, ages, tastes and..... More
Preliminary guide to the identification of late instar larvae of Australian Polycentropodidae, Glossosomatidae, Dipseudopsidae and Psychomyiidae (Insecta: Trichoptera).
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 1998. Quarto, spirally bound, text illustrations. Identification guide no. 15. More
Mark Carwardine's guide to whale watching in Britain and Europe.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. There are many opportunities to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the seas around Europe and this comprehensive and authoritative guide covers everything you need to know about where, when and how to watch them. Packed with useful..... More