Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2016. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. In 1800, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands'. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe..... More
Mile End: Wakefield Press, (2017. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania. Unusually, the book takes its lead from the voyages of Baudin, rather than..... More
Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. Brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, maps, diagrams. Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale. Furthermore, in studies of global biogeography and evolution, DNA sequencing has shown that..... More
Richmond: Explore Australia, 2014. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this gorgeous and compact book, Samantha Martin - the 'Bush Tukka Woman' - shares her knowledge and love of bush tukka as taught to her by her mother and other Aboriginal elders. Her Bush Tukka Guide offers rich and wonderful..... More
Kensington: WA Naturally Publications, 2006. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Features Jurien Bay Marine Park, the pinnacles, the landforms and wildflowers of the Turquoise Coast, Western Australia. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009. reprint). Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations, map. Sarah Murgatroyd has brought together new scientific and historical evidence, and tells in brilliant detail the story of Burke and Wills, the explorers who set out to cross Australia from coast to coast. This book describes vividly the remarkable..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, (2009. third edition, revised). Octavo, paperback, diagrams. This handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations related to practical problems of land use and the scientific study of land and soil. It has been widely used and adopted as a standard throughout..... More
Warriewood: Woodslane Press, (2018. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This comprehensive guide has chapters on birds, mammals, bats, reptiles and frogs, invertebrates, wildflowers and fungi. The introduction covers observing wildlife in the Perth and South west region as well as a guide to localites. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic field guide to the vertebrate wildlife of Victoria’s south-west. It covers all the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region, including on land and in coastal waters. Each of the 288 species profiles includes a description..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 species of dangerous creature most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia’s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Full of helpful advice about how to recognize and deal with (move, kill, or leave) the animals that share our homes and backyards. Australian homes and backyards are abuzz with wildlife: possums in the roof, ants in the cupboards, frogs in..... More
Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, maps. George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries in understanding..... More
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. When the British first arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector desired..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2021. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Victoria's Box-Ironbark region is one of the most important areas of animal diversity and significance in southern Australia. The forests and woodlands of this region provide critical habitat for a diverse array of woodland-dependent animals, including many threatened and..... More
Melbourne: Penguin Books, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations, maps. Most Australians live in cities or cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what Australia is, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book features 29 wildlife hotspots where people have a good chance of seeing animals in their natural habitat. The key species for each spot are listed and the area and its facilities described, together with a map and..... More
Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book Annamaria Weldon offers an intimate portrait of the chain of lakes that includes Lake Yalgorup, between Mandurah and Bunbury on Australia's south-west coast. This book contains a suite of poems, with celebrated essays, and photographs and nature notes cognisant..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: A History of the Grampians..... More