The return of the Osprey.
London: Collins, 1962. Octavo, black and white photographs, biro inscription, good copy in worn dustwrapper. More
London: Collins, 1962. Octavo, black and white photographs, biro inscription, good copy in worn dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white and colour photographs and illustrations, maps. This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2008. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. A highly readable account of the recurring fights over Tasmania's natural resources that have torn its people apart for three decades. More
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. As global demand for forest products increases, conserving biodiversity has become more urgent and challenging. This book advocates adaptive management - a structured approach to learning by doing - to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It..... More
Canberra: Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Kensington: WA Naturally Publications, 2004. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Documents the current state of research into and management of threatened animals in Western Australia. It looks at factors that led to their decline and a vision of what needs to be done to conserve WA's amazing biodiveristy. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $50. From the stunning seascapes of Acadia to the hot, dry desert of Death Valley, America's national parks are home to hundreds of species of wild mammals. Captured in vivid photographs, both the mammals and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour photographs. WAS $68. In this breathtakingly lovely book, Burt selects ninety of his most striking photographs. He also offers his reflections on the marshes he has visited, inviting his readers to come with him and become acquainted with this hidden..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2008. Octavo, paperback and CD-ROM, colour photographs and maps. The first Red List assessment of the entire Cayman Islands flora, covering all 415 species and varieties considered to be native to the Cayman Islands. A comprehensive field guide to the unique plants of the Cayman..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and urban sprawl. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions likely to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate..... More
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
London: Collins, 1972. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Collins, 1972. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. The salvaging of the last remaining Kakapos and the subsequent breeding successes is probably the greatest story of modern conservation ornithology. More
San Rafael: Earth Aware Editions, 2008. Folio, photographs, fine copy in slipcase. More
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
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Geographic isolation has fostered the evolution of many species of birds and plants entirely unique to the Hawaiian Islands, yet these islands are home to three quarters of all of America's extinctions most of which have been caused by the human..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 123. Terns provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds. Terns are small seabirds that are commonly seen along coastlines and estuaries in the summer months - their graceful flight and command of the..... More
New York: WW Norton & Co, 2009. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. From the leader and spokeswoman of the anti-nuclear movement comes a revised and updated edition of this groundbreaking, widely acclaimed classic. Exploring dangerous global trends, Helen Caldicott presents a picture of our world and the forces that threaten its..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, photographs, maps, paperback. WAS $40. This guide provides detailed, factual answers to questions such as what parrots eat in the wild, why so many species live in the Amazon, how intelligent parrots are, and what is the world's rarest parrot? The beautiful plumage..... More
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
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
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
London: Unicorn Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The sea around us (1950), Under the wind-sea (1941) and The edge of the sea (1955). This volume presents an overview of the natural history of the oceans and discusses such matters as their..... More
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1981. Quarto, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's cloth. More