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London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2007. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching can present identification difficulties to even the most experienced birdwatcher, and demands a specialised set of skills and strategies to deal with the challenges of bad weather and poor visibility. The rewards can be great; many... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, 117 colour photographs. Presents photographs of the elephant, from the wildest outreaches of Botswana to the teeming cities of India. This book features photographs that include aerial shots, the drama of the fight between angry males, tender interaction between mother and calves, the... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Photographer Steve Bloom creates evocative photographic images of the living world. Concern for the environment is evident in all of his images. He strives to capture the very spirit of the animals included in this book. At a time when... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Here is a new, compact gift edition of Steve Bloom's breathtaking photographs of wildlife around the world. Bloom's goal, brilliantly realised here, is to capture the animals' spirit: the tiger's eye gleaming brightly in the jungles of India; polar bear cubs... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Small octavo, paperback, In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). Now available in paperback. More
Warsaw: WWF, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book adeptly describes the life after death of trees - an interesting and diverse life it turns out to be. While we humans are used to thinking about dead trees as a hazard or a waste, this book makes... More
New York: Globe Pequot Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. A compulsively readable natural and social history, this book is a profusely illustrated celebration of all things eagle, by a naturalist who has kept eagles himself and ridden with the eagle tribes of Central Asia. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, maps, tables. Christophe Boesch takes readers into the lives of chimpanzees from different African regions, highlighting the debate about culture. He looks at the different ways chimpanzees show feelings or complete tasks and how this could be compared... More
Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. In Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Examines the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. A hardcover is also available. More
Burlington: Elsevier, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences, 9. The Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland rivers, are located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. All three rivers have their source in the rugged central mountain... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of... More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Steppes are giant grasslands, defined not only by their plants, but also by the geology and climate that created them. They comprise enormous areas on four continents and are where a huge number of staple crops and garden plants originated... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. From familiar terrapins basking on a log to the majestic long-lived giant tortoises, turtles are the most fascinating animals. This illustrated guide to the world's 300 species of turtles reveals details of these intriguing reptiles in their... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. A guide to the world's nearly 300 species of turtles, it reveals details of these intriguing reptiles in their native habitats: what they eat, where they live, how they behave, and when and where they lay their eggs... More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. A personal, behind-the scenes look at modern zoos. From the day-to-day aspects of caring for some of the world's most exotic creatures to the role of zoos as field conservation organizations, saving wild things in wild places, this... 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
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. The longest coastal river in New South Wales, the Hawkesbury River has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the survival of the early British colony at Sydney. Although it lies only 35 km north of Sydney... More
London: Christopher Helm, (2014. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Birds of Western Africa (Helm, 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all the species of this region, which comprises 23 countries from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic, and south to... More
London: A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Ghana is one of the safest and most accessible countries in Western Africa and is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa [stock id 15051], which... More
London: A & C Black, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This new field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating region shelters many Western Palearctic migrants from September to April, as... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour and black and white illustrations, map. Borneo’s mesmerising natural biodiversity is made up of very many species, including beetles, and very many are also endemic or confined to this island. It follows that it is virtually impossible to attempt..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Borneo, one of the world’s most exciting biodiversity hotspots, is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, including the lanternflies. Thus far, just 34 taxa are known from... More
Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. An attractively illustrated book covering all the larger carnivores of Africa. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. The... More