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New York: AtlasBooks, 2006. Octavo, fine copy in 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
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $42. A comprehensive field guide to the 346 species of birds found in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations. WAS $25. Reaktion Animal Series. Despite our familiarity with dolphins, many people remain ill-informed about how they evolved, how they function and how they have interacted with humans for millennia. This book dives into the dolphin's zoology, as well as its..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. WAS $33. The lily is a flower of contradictions. It represents both life and death, appearing at weddings and funerals. In their pure white form, lilies are a symbol of innocence, chastity and purity of..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. WAS $110. This field guide is the companion volume to the Birds of northern South America: an identification guide (Volume 1): species accounts. [stock id 24369] by the same authors. Over 2,250 species are accurately illustrated with a...... More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $110. Taking an integrated approach to the biology of marine carnivores twenty-two prominent researchers compare marine mammals with one another and with terrestrial animals, providing a framework for fundamental biological and ecological concepts. They describe functional morphology, sensory systems, energetics..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. WAS $25. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, this informative book tells how oceanography developed as a science and summarizes what is known about the organisms that live in the deep ocean. Describing underwater mountains and plains as well..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. WAS $80. Focuses on the natural history of Australian bats. The authors take the reader through the nation's broad bioregions, describe what bats do in them, the ecosystem services that they provide, and some of the places where they can..... More
London: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations, maps. While good general guides to North American birds are widely available, these days careful and avid birders require the most specialised information on bird identification, especially for the more complex species groups. A Guide to the Identification and Natural..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1998. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $90. Some of the chapters in this volume have been drawn from papers presented at the Inaugural Albatross Conference in Hobart in 1995. Presents information about systematics and status, population studies, foraging and fisheries relationships, and mortality due..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs. WAS $70. The Flight of the Emu is a history of Australian birding in the twentieth century. The Emu of the title comes from the hundred-year old journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (later Birds Australia)..... More
Arkansas: University of Arkansas, 1988. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $90. More
Mountfield: Pica Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, tables. WAS $50. This checklist covers all 2245 species recorded in the region. Each species account includes useful annotations including regional subspecies and taxonomic notes, altitudinal range, references, and status on regional checklists. For field guide and identification guide see also [stock id 24369..... More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $20. No matter where you live, you have the joy of hearing and seeing birds. This easy-to-use guide teaches how to identify different bird species by observing their body-parts, understand birds' behavior and habits, get to know the birds around..... More
London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps. WAS $100. Richard Sale is one of the world's leading Arctic scholars and explorers and a professional glaciologist. He has written widely on Polar history, exploration and wildlife (including Arctic Odyssey), and in 2003 won the Outdoor Book..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, other illustrations. WAS $110. This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1996. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $140. Fourth volume in the series. Many issues important to the development and maintenance of networks for conservation are discussed in this volume. The topics cover biology, indigenous people, landcare groups and property ownershipand mining. More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1993. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $90. Third volume in this series is based on material presented at a workshop held in 1991 on the need for reconstruction of framented ecosystems, and the role of ecologists and conservation biologists in integrating their research and interpreting it in..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, (1993. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs, maps. WAS $17. The authors describe the plumage, body size, status and some interesting aspects of the biology of each of the common species on the island. More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1991. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $95. The contents are arranged under four major headings: inventory and assessment of corridors; values of corridors; movement of biota; and management, establishment, maintenance and rehabilitation. Companion volume to the first volume Nature conservation: the role of remnants of..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. WAS $25. Reaktion Animal Series. Filled with beguiling images, Lizard is a unique and sometimes surprising introduction to this popular but little-understood reptile. Boria Sax describes the diversity of lizard species and traces the representation of this reptile in cultures worldwide. Lizards..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white text illustrations. WAS $125. This book offers a definitive manual for the identification of the seaweeds that inhabit the deep offshore waters as well as the near shoreline and shallow water sounds from North Carolina to northern Florida. It provides..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1995. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $86. Based on material presented at a three-day conference held at Healesville Sanctuary in April 1993. Discusses current theoretical and practical aspects of wildlife reintroductions in Australia and New Zealand. Useful information for those in areas. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Remainder mark. WAS $60. Birds is the first book to examine bird remains in archaeology and anthropology. Providing a thorough review of the literature on this topic, it also serves as a guide to the methods of..... More
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1997. Octavo, softcover, colour photographs and text illustrations. This part continues the series on marine invertebrates of southern Australian temperate waters and follows the style of Parts one and two. It includes some minor phyla, marine and littoral representatives of two subclasses in the large phylum Anthropoda..... More