Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological... More
New York: AtlasBooks, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. More
New York: North Point Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. WAS $45. Traces the life of John James Audubon, his efforts to record the wild birds of North America, and his fifteen-year struggle against a conventional scientific establishment to find a publisher for his masterwork, "The Birds of America." More
New York: Harper Collins, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $35. " Meet the Hannibal Lecter of the conservation world....This expose reads like a thriller and proves once again that truth is stanger than fiction." Lee Child. Endangered species of butterflies were as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1998. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. WAS $22. The author of a number of books, including Wildflowers of Australia, Dr Thistle Stead was a botanist, educator, writer, academic and environmentalist, who was involved with many causes such as the creation of the Wirrimbirra Sanctuary and the Kosciuszko National Park. More