Australian natural history gleanings.
London: Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1897-1898. Octavo, binder's boards with label. Extract. More
London: Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1897-1898. Octavo, binder's boards with label. Extract. More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in the Himalaya. Throughout his career, Schaller has..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. Using the sometimes vicious academic debates and the powerful personalities of scientists as background, Schilthuizen explores the meandering path of species research and sets it out in the clearest possible terms. From looking at how we define a species, to exploring..... More
Octavo, photographs, bookplate, binder's cloth. An extract from The National Geographic Magazine on Juan Fernandez Island. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by labouring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away..... More
London: Icon Books, 2009. Octavo, softcover. Tracks many years of research by hundreds of scientists into animal behaviour. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. This book provides a sweeping account of insects' evolution from their humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know today. Leaving no stone unturned, Shaw explores how evolutionary innovations such as small body size, wings, metamorphosis, and parasitic behavior have enabled..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould, H. H. Shugart entertains and enlightens with parables from the amazing world of birds and mammals. Also available in paperback [stock id 26000]. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. From the metamorphosing fairytale Frog Prince and The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, to dissections in science class and television's Kermit, frogs are ever-present in our childhoods. Just what is it about this slimy creature that captures our..... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. Octavo, paperback, More
Edinburgh: Birlinn General, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. This is a book for anyone interested in wildlife, for art lovers, for tourists wanting a memento of their holiday, for everyone who loves the west coast of Scotland. It depicts a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote island..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2009. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $40. Remarkable discoveries from recent research on wild animals. This book's title refers to new research revealing that almost every Cheetah litter has two or more fathers. This phenomenon has two major benefits: the cubs are more genetically..... More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Octavo, paperback, WAS $33. Forbidding, vast, spectacular, lonely: each is a word that springs to mind when we think of Antarctica. A world of endless ice, remote mountain ranges, and weather so fierce that only the hardiest of explorers could hope to meet its..... More
Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, (1972. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, other illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Relates the situation of the non-human great apes (bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas and orangutans), discussing how humans have imagined them historically and in modern times. We are both fascinated and unnerved by these creatures who are..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. In the early 1970s, the environmental movement was underway. Over population was recognised as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soule believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural resources and the loss of the planet's..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Gardens are an opportunity to see an ecosystem at work, yet we are often oblivious of the sheer richness of experience that our gardens can provide. In small gardens, most visiting wildlife will be in the form of birds and..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. From a root canal on a three-thousand pound hippo to one doctor's heartbreaking effort to save a critically ill lemur, here are acts of rescue, kindness, and cross-disciplinary cooperation between zoo vets and other top scientists. We..... More
London: Macmillan, 1883. Octavo, very good copy in publisher's cloth. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings. Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship..... More
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, A collection of linked essays on the topic of biological evolution. The first half of the book explores most of the main theoretical controversies about evolution and selection, while the second half applies some of these ideas in considering cognitive evolution. Together, the essays..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2004. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Part of an unusual series that looks at the subject animal and its place in human history. Oyster, literary historian and radio broadcaster Rebecca Stott tells the extraordinary story of the oyster and its..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2012. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Renowned scientist David Suzuki explores the environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. Suzuki shows that understanding the causes - and recognizing that everything in nature is interconnected - is crucial to restoring hope for a better future..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Explores the stories surrounding approximately 30 of the world's best-known species, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. More
John Beaufoy Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A thoroughly entertaining personal account of the author’s birding expeditions to some of Australia’s very special islands. She hasn’t attempted to include every one of the 8,371 islands of Australia but she has visited the country’s most extreme islands: the most southerly..... More