A century afield: a history of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club.
Hobart. Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An account of the history of the club to mark its centenary. More
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Hobart. Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An account of the history of the club to mark its centenary. More
London: British Library, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. With their fascinating plumage, behaviour and power of flight, birds have captured people's imagination since earliest times. In this beautifully and unusually illustrated book, Celia Fisher traces the remarkable breadth of ways in which artists, writers and storytellers have depicted the enduring..... More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2004. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations Peter Schouten. Ninety-seven of the world's most amazing animals are featured in this book. The text accompanying each species is full of interesting facts and stories, and covers extreme environments, specialised diets, bizarre reproduction and strange worlds. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Blending together the writings of early Australian explorers, settlers, and leaders, "The Birth of Sydney" editor Flannery constructs a compelling narrative history of the early life of one of the world's great cities. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. "Tim Flannery's account of North America from the end of the dinosaurs to the rise of Hollywood makes a thrilling, beautifully written story. It will fascinate Australians and Americans alike." Professor Jared Diamond. Also available in paperback [stock id..... More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A biography of our planet - an argument for hope. We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of..... More
Mile End: Wakefield Press, (2017. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania. Unusually, the book takes its lead from the voyages of Baudin, rather than..... More
Sydney: New South Books, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In the summer of 2002-03, acclaimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. He was on board the first Australian ship to ' slice the silence' of a year, arriving at Casey Station to deliver the new..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. In this book, Don Grussing tells the uncommon life story of one of the most common birds, the North American Robin. Written as fiction to capture the high drama that goes on unnoticed right outside our windows, the book follows..... More
London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Today an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists, inventors, and engineers is turning to nature to innovate and find elegant solutions to human problems. The principle driving this transformation is called biomimicry, and Harman shares a wide range of..... More
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. Octavo, dustwrapper, A wonderful journey into the insect world through literature, science, art and popular culture. More
United States: Createspace, 2013. Octavo, softcover An early environmentalist, Hudson often laments man's destruction of nature in this volume, presenting wonderful arguments as to the value of convservation. More
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe, and explored their neighborhood, collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From..... More
London: Icon Books, 2007. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. A handy guide for even the most urban of settlers in the ways of Britain's flora and fauna. More
London: Transworld Publishers, (2015. reprint). Octavo, paperback, One puff adder, one antelope, one crocodile - This was the list of sick animals presented to Oliver Graham-Jones on his first day as a new vet at London Zoo in 1951. And his time at the zoo didn't get any less strange..... More
Durham, NH: University of New England, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Painfully aware of the ecological changes being brought on by global warming, Lanza sets out to show his children the wonders of North America before they have changed forever. A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza takes his children..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Painfully aware of the ecological changes being brought on by global warming, Lanza sets out to show his children the wonders of North America before they have changed forever. A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza takes his children..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. New Naturalist # 130. A definitive natural history of the Yorkshire Dales, covering the range of wildlife habitats, rich cultural heritage and ecological history of one of our best-loved National Parks. The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a special..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist #130. A definitive natural history of the Yorkshire Dales, covering the range of wildlife habitats, rich cultural heritage and ecological history of one of our best-loved National Parks. The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a special..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. James Macdonald Lockhart explores all fifteen breeding birds of prey on British shores, from the Hen harrier to the ghostly Sparrowhawk. Also available in hardcover [stock id 39129]. More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald. Of all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor reigns supreme, sparking the imagination like no other. In this magnificent hymn to these beautiful animals, James Macdonald Lockhart explores all..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Disentangling the facts from the hype, this 'Domesday book' offers a definitive and up-to-date survey of the state of wildlife of the British and Irish countryside today. Norman Maclean, editor of the bestselling "Silent summer", examines the latest findings of Britain..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature’s Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the..... More