The lions and elephants of The Chobe: Botswana's untamed wilderness.
Sandton: Sable Publishers, [1984]. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sandton: Sable Publishers, [1984]. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Describes aspects of Cougar natural history, such as its rugged habitat and how the males struggle to claim territory. This book features conservationists who relate the political history of America's greatest cat. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27414]. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history. More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. The book is primarily a natural history of the jaguar in south-west USA and discusses its distribution, habitats, and hunting and breeding characteristics. It concludes with a section on the status and management of these borderland jaguars and..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. The most comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world's wildcats and hyenas. From the Leopard Cat of Asia, the Black-footed Cat of Africa, and the Amur Tiger of Siberia to South America's Ocelots and North America's Bobcats, the wildcats..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. While the tiger has long been identified with political authority, the Chinese pangolin and its earthly magic have exerted a powerful influence in the everyday lives of those working and living in the fields and forests. Today..... More
New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1968. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The story of the domestication of wild animals. More
South Africa, Sunbird, 2001. Folio, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Octavo, paperback, There is an estimated population of 50 panthers and this book describes these animals and their relationship with the people who come into contact with them. More
Munich: Bucher Verlag, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book offers an exciting expedition to the Bandhagarh Tiger Reserve in the heart of India. The authors show you the elusive tigers of India as few people have ever seen them. The most powerful predatory cat in the world rules the..... More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1997. Large quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Over 100 color photographs combined with a detailed text outlining biology, behaviour and social structure of these elusive big cats. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs by Beverly Joubert. The tawny lion slinks through golden grass, stealthy and sinuous, utterly concentrated on the hunt, a perfect predator awaiting only the instant when pure instinct triggers the rush, the spring, the ferocious slash of sharp claws and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Hunter and hunted is an account of the intricate relationships between predators and humans. Written by one of the world's best known naturalists, Hans Kruuk, it is both about his life-long passion for meat-eaters as diverse as otters and wolves, tigers..... More
Washington: Island Press, 2001. Octavo, photographs, graphs, softcover. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Oblong format, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Nestled in the woods near Center Point, Indiana, The Exotic Feline Rescue Center houses more than 160 big cats - ranging from lions, tigers, leopards, and pumas, to bobcats and more obscure breeds like the caracal, serval..... More
London: Rivington Books, 1977. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Vlaeberg: Struik Publishers, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Describes the appearance, distribution, mating strategies and killing behaviour of 14 of Africa's largest predators. Species covered are lion, leopard, cheetah, caracal, serval, striped hyaena, brown hyaena, spotted hyaena, aardwolf, wild dog, ethiopian wolf and the three species of..... More
Norg: DrukWare, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps. In March 2000, while fishing for flatfish, a Dutch fishig vessel from the village of Urk brought up a fossilized lower jaw bone of a Saber-toothed cat (Homotherium latidens) from the bottom of the North Sea. At that time it..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. WAS $25. Reaktion Animal Series. The leopard has commanded respect and awe in mankind for centuries. Here, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris shows all sides of the animal's character: its athletic elegance, its predatory skill, its wary shyness, its cunning intelligence, its parental..... More
Gland: IUCN, 1996. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild. It provides a thorough..... More
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but..... More
Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats..... More