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Australasian Nature Photography [AGNPOTY] Sixteenth edition: the year's best wildlife and landscape photos.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2019. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. More
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Plants and habitats: an introduction to common plants and their habitats in Britain and Ireland.
[East Lothian]: Author, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Aids in the identification of the 700 most common plant species found in Britain and Ireland. Also includes species that are conspicuous or useful ecological indicators. There is also a separate habitats section describing the flora, ecology and management of..... More
Fighting for birds: 25 years in nature conservation.
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark's early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories..... More
Remarkable birds.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. In this beautifully presented volume, over 60 birds are introduced, organized thematically into eight sections, covering all aspects of our relationship with birds. 'Songbirds' celebrates the greatest bird virtuosi, such as the Nightingale, while 'Birds of Prey' include majestic hunters..... More
Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan.
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations and photographs, maps. The first field guide to include the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, along with neighbouring Afghanistan. This vast area includes a diverse variety of habitats, and the avifauna is similarly broad, from..... More
Steve Backshall's wildlife adventurer's guide: a guide to exploring wildlife in Britain.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. A naturalist's equivalent to the Dangerous Book for Boys, this book includes tips on everything from beachcombing, snorkelling and building your own hedgehog hotel, to tree climbing, natural foods and how to make traps for insects and mammals. This hands-on..... More
Naturalist's guide to the mushrooms and other fungi of Britain and Northern Europe.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful..... More
Identification guide to mushrooms of Britain and Northern Europe.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, the anatomy of a mushroom, nomenclature and useful information on hunting for and cooking with mushrooms. The identification section then divides into three categories: edible mushrooms, inedible (but not poisonous) mushrooms, and poisonous..... More
Billion-dollar fish: the untold story of Alaska pollock.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Alaska pollock is everywhere. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in..... More
Carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland.
Peterborough: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2016. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This fully illustrated guide to the carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland features over 200 images and documents all recognised native species and their hybrids, as well as the non-native species that have become naturalised..... More
The rainforests of Britain and Ireland.
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..... More
Natural histories: extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library.
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to..... More
The lives of Hawai'i's dolphins and whales: natural history and conservation.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Although this book covers the well-known resident spinner dolphins and the visiting humpback whales, it particularly highlights the ten species of lesser-known open-ocean dolphins and whales that are resident to the marine slopes of the islands. These include..... More
Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Quarto, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Provides a guide to the world’s 136 living species of carnivorous marsupials and is packed with never-before-seen photos. Biogeography, relationships and conservation are also covered in detail. Readers are taken on a journey through..... More
Wild about the natives: a photographic journey through Australia's south west bushland.
Glen Forrest: Off Pen Publishing, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book capturing the essence of spring in the south west of Western Australia. More
The complete naturalist.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. This book is an up-to-date, practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world around us..... More
RSPB nature tracker's handbook.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustations. Every animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is very much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth..... More
Artist animal.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who..... More
Britain's hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain and Ireland.
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500 remarkable..... More
Birds and Counties: an ornithological bibliography for the Counties of England, Wales, Scotland and for the Isle of Man.
London: Imperial College Press, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, maps. A magnificent contribution to ornithological history in the United Kingdom. Includes all known books, pamphlets and papers which contain substantial studies of the birds of local areas. Each county has an introduction on its boundaries and the history of its ornithology... More
Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Large quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Spanning the vast diversity of Earth's oceans, these fascinating ocean worlds occupy more than three quarters of our planet, and their natural richness is the source of life, yet they are still poorly understood. With through, accessible essays on..... More
Bird anatomy for artists.
Redcliffe: BFineArt, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Foreword by Penny Olsen. This informative textbook for bird artists is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings..... More
Butterflies of the world.
London: Abrams, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A photographic book on butterflies and moths. It captures the metamorphosis from caterpillar to winged adults as well as the vast diversity of butterflies. More
Birds of the world.
New York: Abrams, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Building on more than 20 years' experience travelling and photographing in some of the world's remotest places, Gilles Martin offers in his new book a magnificent photographic collection of some of the most charismatic birds on the globe., Building on more than..... More
The biology of terrestrial molluscs.
Wallingford: Cabi publishing, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. Topics covered include Morphology, phylogeny and systematics. Body wall: form and function. Sensory organs and the nervous system. Radular structure and function. Structure and function of the digestive tract. Food and feeding behaviour. Haemolymph: blood cell morphology and function. Structure and functioning..... More