London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, a fine copy in dustwrapper. A personal view of the natural world Life Stories 2 is the second installment of Sir David's look back at the wildlife that has captured his imagination and enthusiasm over his distinguished career. It is..... More
Potts Point: Hordern House, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. A collection of Matthew Flinders' letters accompanied by biographical notes, bibliography and illustrations. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, softcover. More
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Large octavo, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on Earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th..... 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
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
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
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
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2017. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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..... More
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, .colour and black and white illustrations. British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic..... More
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
New York: Random House, 2021. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic..... More
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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, map, a fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), which led him to come..... More