Salmon country: a history of the Pacific salmon.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. More
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Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, maps. Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book examines three significant national policy reform efforts that came out of these conflicts: the development of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the..... More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. WAS $115. Examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden and Grey Plovers. There are four species of tundra plover: the Grey Plover, and the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers. They breed only in the northern hemisphere, principally..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Geographic isolation has fostered the evolution of many species of birds and plants entirely unique to the Hawaiian Islands, yet these islands are home to three quarters of all of America's extinctions most of which have been caused by the human..... More
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or that have been introduced..... More
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Designed specifically for the amateur naturalist and filled with hands-on-projects and activities. More
Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Based in the heart of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, Peter Cairns is a freelance nature photographer with a deep fascination for our relationship with the natural world. In addition to documenting Europe's high-profile wildlife species, his work focuses on a diverse..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 133. Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. Plentiful and familiar, ants make up an estimated one-third of the world’s insect biomass and can be found in virtually every part of the globe, from rain forest canopies to city sidewalks. But their importance is about more than..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs by Geoff Jones, maps. Contains the excellent photographs of well known Australian birdwatcher and photographer Geoff Jones. The guide covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning colour photographs, including many photographs..... More
Edinburgh: Birlinn General, 2014. Octavo, oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This book is a celebration of the return of the otter to Britain's rivers and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline in the last century. For more than two decades, award-winning photographer Laurie Campbell has documented these lithe, elusive predators..... More
Dunbeath: Otago University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Over the past ten years many communities all over New Zealand have launched ambitious projects to bring native ecologies back to the mainland. By building predator-proof fences around big areas of land the aim is to protect native flora and fauna..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles is complex and a number of species are of particular..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, owner's sticker, laminated boards, fine copy. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles is complex and a number of..... More
Ithaca: Comstock, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations, maps. This field guide introduces readers to the biology, behaviour, and ecological significance of one of the most obvious (abundant, large, and colorful) and important (ecologically and economically significant) insect groups in North America, the order Orthoptera. A simple, illustrated identification..... More
Timber Press, (2022. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. With more than 260,000 copies in print, this bestselling primer on the science of plants is back and better than ever, with updated content and new photography. What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2020. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. With more than 1,000 meticulous and specially commissioned illustrations, complete with flukes, blows and dive sequences, it includes detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks, as well as extensive distribution and migration maps. Many of the world's most..... More
New York: Abrams, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do, as well as looking at the exotic and the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. Photographs..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. There are many opportunities to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the seas around Europe and this comprehensive and authoritative guide covers everything you need to know about where, when and how to watch them. Packed with useful..... More
Brisbane: Kimberley Publications, 1996. Octavo, black and white photographs, softcover. The must have guide for transforming a backyard into a welcome habitat for local native frogs. This charming book provides essential advice on tadpole raising, frog identification, frog-spotting techniques, frog calls and frog photography. Practical advice is given on building..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. An overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. These include particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses that are carried by wind around the globe. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. The most comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world's wildcats and hyenas. From the Leopard Cat of Asia, the Black-footed Cat of Africa, and the Amur Tiger of Siberia to South America's Ocelots and North America's Bobcats, the wildcats..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world's canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American Bush Dog. It features more than 150..... More
Portland OR: Pomegranate Communications, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Charley Harper and Edie McKee met on the first day of school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1940. They studied together, fell in love, survived World War II, married, and embarked on successful careers in art. Today, Charley's work..... More