Primates of West Africa: a field guide and natural history.
Washington DC: Conservation International CEMEX, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. An excellent guide to the primates of West Africa. More
Washington DC: Conservation International CEMEX, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. An excellent guide to the primates of West Africa. More
Washington DC: Conservation International, 2010. colour illustrations, maps. This book covers the primates of West Africa to the north and west of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. More
New York: Firefly Books, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese one-horned rhinoceros is extinct, the western black rhino is now believed to be extinct, and the northern white rhinoceros, the largest of them all, survives - only precariously - in captivity..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011. Octavo, paperback, photographs, colour and black and white illustrations. The world's largest marsupial predator was deliberately hunted to extinction through fear, ignorance and greed. But was it a savage sheep killer or a shy, fussy, nocturnal feeder? And did it really drink its victims'..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world's most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly indomitable ruler..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums, to sloths and sakis. This biological..... More
Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. The elephants of the Knysna forest in South Africa have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local..... More
London: Phoenix, 1999. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This remarkable memoir of scientific discovery begins at the Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon, where Katy Payne's revolutionary work in the field of elephant communication began. It was there that she first discovered the idea that elephants use infrasonic sounds -- sounds below..... More
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, photographs, colour illustrations. Explores the ongoing relationship between humans and dolphins in New Zealand. It tells the stories of many remarkable encounters, featuring all of the famous dolphins, such as Pelorus Jack from the early years of the 20th century, Opp in the..... More
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, Through their in-depth exploration of our relationship with chimpanzees, Peterson and Goodall demonstrate our close ties to these animals and also reveal how distant humans have become from their own place in nature. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Features photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann. Introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their astonishing discoveries. This title explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early..... More
Australia: NewSouth Publishing, 2024. Octavo, paperback, Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta dives beneath the surface to reveal the mysterious world of humpback whales — from their life cycle and the challenges..... More
Jacksonville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, map. Provides the first in-depth history of the attempts to provide legal protection for the manatee. Along the way, Pittman takes a close look at the major and minor players in the dispute, from Jacques-Yves Cousteau to Jeb..... More
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Today the Tiger is an endangered species (the estimated total population as few as 2,500) and confined to small parts of Asia. Due in part to poaching and in part to loss of natural habitat, but all the responsibility of man..... More
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Octavo, publisher's boards, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts. This book, spearheaded..... More
Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats..... More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Reveals aspects of Manatee biology, their relation to the environment, and the biopolitics that result from the intersection of science and wildlife management. Looks at such topics as the microorganisms that cause manatee die-offs during red tide blooms..... More
London: A & C Black, 2002. Octavo, paperback, more than 320 colour illustrations, 418 colour photographs, maps. This field guide describes in detail all 120 species of the world's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, sirenians (sea cows and dugongs), sea otters, and the Polar Bear. More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. A comprehensive, colourfully illustrated and concise overview. Starts with an review of myths and legends and current human attitudes. Follows with an up to date scientific assessment of dophin evolution, behaviour, ecology, morphology, reproduciton, genetics, conservation and management..... More
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Wildlife Monographs, a series of fabulous, full-colour books led by stunning photographic images with fresh, informative and vivid new text charting our favourite wild animals on their home terrain. The first eight volumes in the series track the lives of elephants..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. These stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. These stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild..... More