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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
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
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
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
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. Paul Johnsgard is one of America's most prominent ornithologists and a world authority on waterfowl behavior. In these popularly written, often lyrical essays, he describes some of his most fascinating encounters with birds, from watching the annual mating displays of..... 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
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Lots of insects suck blood, but one species above all others has a big reputation for its very small size, the mosquito. Due to the diseases they carry and inject, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Whether as living animals, abstract symbols or commercial resources, badgers have fascinated humans for thousands of years - though often to the animals' detriment. From the iconic European badger to the African honey badger, the hog badger of Southeast..... More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2002. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Includes commentary on ornithological literature, painting, history and conservation. "Why write another bird book? Based on nearly sixty years of birding with eye, pen, and plenty of books, I think I have some things to say that others..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. During his childhood, Richard Kerridge loved to catch wild creatures for his back-garden zoo, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. The flamingo is possibly the most easily recognized bird in the world. But it is not a single species - there are six different species of flamingos, each differing in size and colour. Caitlin R. Kight presents this fascinating creature in..... 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
Millers Point: Pier 9, 2008. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
South Yarra: Lloyd O'Neil, (1983. revised edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Designed both to encourage beginning naturalists and to challenge more experienced observers to look at the familiar in new ways, A Field Guide to the Familiar offers an introduction to common plants, animals, and natural phenomena. Beautiful drawings add..... More
London: The Natural History Press, 2006. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, line drawings. WAS $40. This book explores the fates of whales and dolphins and how they became intertwined with human history. The story begins over 1000 years ago when hunters first took up harpoons and went to sea in search..... 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
Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. In this insightful, compelling, and highly readable work, Melanie Lenart, an award-winning journalist and science writer who holds a PhD in this book, examines global warming with the trained eye of a professional scientist. And she presents the science in..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, black and white illustrations, dustwrapper. There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out..... More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1919]. Octavo, illustrated from photographs by the authors. Publisher's decorated cloth, bookplate, chipped dustwrapper (scarce), a fine copy. The National Library's website has two separate entries and gives the publication dates respectively 1927 and 1920. However I have seen a copy with a contemporary inscription dated..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. reprint). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. In this epic book, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he attempts to explain, in a jargon-free way, the phenomena that we call 'life on Earth'. Lloyd starts..... More