Charles Darwin's letters: a selection.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, softcover. More
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Best Australian science writing 2016.
Sydney: New South Books, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be..... More
Curious encounters with the natural world: from grumpy spiders to hidden tigers.
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
Darwin: portrait of a genius.
New York: Penguin, 2012. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate. Johnson's biography is already causing a stir on the pages of Slate and New Scientist, and has become..... More
The lost species: great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part..... More
Banks.
Sydney: Harper Collins, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge. By award-winning bestselling writer Grantlee..... More
Painting by numbers: the life and art of Ferdinand Bauer.
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as the greatest natural history painter of all time. Hand-picked by Joseph Banks, in 1801-1805 Bauer accompanied Matthew Flinders during his circumnavigation of Australia, and lived in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Already celebrated in..... More
Art of the New Naturalists: forms from nature.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the..... More
Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm.
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Alec Chisholm inspired Australians to see nature anew. His Mateship with Birds, published in 1922, is a classic of nature writing, and until his death in 1977 he urged his compatriots to cherish the natural world as their national heritage. Chisholm was..... More
A life in nature.
London: Sphere, (2021. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper and CD, colour illustrations. A Life In Nature is a portrait of Peter Scott collected from his own conversations, articles and broadcasts including thoughts on expeditions to Lapland, Conservation and Africa, his travels in Europe and much more. Illustrated by Peter's own beautiful illustrations..... More
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