Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2015. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. In this book Clifton Bain focuses on the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands that line the west coasts of, north to south, Scotland, Northern England, Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall...
New York: Abrams, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. WAS $80. There are no places on earth more mysterious and complex than tropical rainforests. These wonders of biodiversity cover just six percent of the earth's surface, yet are home to over half of all identified animal and plant species and contain...
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The tropical lowland rain forest in Sabah is one of the richest ecosystems in the world. This account puts together an introduction to the rain forest and its many biological facets with awe inspiring photographs by wildlife photographer Ch'ien C....
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen...
Melbourne: Nokomis Editions, 2004. Large quarto, dustwrapper, 1230 colour illustrations, text illustrations. The most important book on tropical Australian botany ever published with 2436 species described and 1236 illustrated in full colour. This definitive work, 17 years in the making, covers the fruiting plants of Australia's tropical rainforest in Queensland...
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. The sixth in the Cronin's key guide series. Includes more than 300 commonly observed species from rainforests around Australia. Each plant is beautifully illustrated and described in detail and distribution maps accompany every species. Also includes an introduction to...
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. A user-friendly and globally relevant practical guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable substantial improvements in existing forest...
New York: Harry N Abrams, 1979. Small folio, photographs by Kjell Sandved, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. The average kilometre of tropical rainforest contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As this book reveals, many of the most colourful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants, toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and hummingbirds, to name a few, are...
Sydney: Forestry Commission of N. S. W., 1979-1984. Octavo, text illustrations, Binder's cloth with owner's stamp.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Adrian Forsyth draws on four decades of personal encounters with the animals of the rainforests, including Poison-dart frogs, Three-toed sloths, Bushmasters, and Umbrellabirds, as a starting point to communicate key ecological topics such as biodiversity, coevolution, rarity, chemical defense, nutrient cycling...
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians...
London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians...
Frenchs Forest: Reed, 1986. Small quarto, photographs, tape adhesion damame to pastedowns, dustwrapper.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, tables, maps. The rainforests of Australia cover only 4% of Australia's land mass but contain 50% of Australia's plant and animals life. This superb synthesis of these Heritage listed forests covers all aspects of conservation, plant and animal biology, and cultural significance.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Describes 140 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood. The introductory sections draw the reader into an understanding of the botanical, evolutionary, environmental, historical and international significance of this beautiful but finite Australian resource. The main section...
New Florence: Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. In the wilderness of Papua New Guinea, Andy Mack completed some of the first in-depth and long-term ecological studies ever undertaken in Melanesia. After decades of research, he came away with insights into conservation, economic development, and the...
New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2010. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Follow the story and live the experience of one man's photographic journey through the rainforests of the world. 16 plus years in the making, packed with spectacular photographs from Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life...
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps, tables. In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Quarto, paperback, illustrations, maps. Addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do customary village and state...
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. A superb photographic portrayal of marine and terrestrial life in one of the world's most biodiverse regions - the tropics of north-eastern Australia, together with the South Pacific nations of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The photographs were taken over a....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Octavo, paperback,
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs.
London: John Wiley and Sons, (2011. second edition). Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations...
The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1996. fifth edition), Octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover. Part one of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and characteristics in the...
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