Charles Darwin's letters: a selection.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, softcover. More
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Fifty animals that changed the course of history.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011. Octavo, publisher's boards, colour photographs. A beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of animals great and small. These are the animals that have played a central role in the evolution of humankind and modern society, but remain at the periphery of our..... More
Best Australian science writing 2016.
Sydney: New South Books, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be..... More
Finding order in nature: the naturalist tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, paperback. Traces the development of the naturalist tradition since the Enlightenment and considers its relationship to other research areas in the life sciences. Explores the adventures of early naturalists, the ideas that lay behind classification systems, the development of museums and zoos..... More
Curious encounters with the natural world: from grumpy spiders to hidden tigers.
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe, and explored their neighborhood, collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From..... More
Darwin: portrait of a genius.
New York: Penguin, 2012. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate. Johnson's biography is already causing a stir on the pages of Slate and New Scientist, and has become..... More
Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park.
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, Before Steve Irwin, Alby Mangels, the Leyland Brothers and Harry Butler there was Eric Worrell. This book traces the life and times of Worrell, the original reptile danger man and naturalist, and the iconic tourist attraction he established on the NSW Central Coast in..... More
Art of the New Naturalists: forms from nature.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the..... More
Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm.
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs Alec Chisholm inspired Australians to see nature anew. His Mateship with Birds, published in 1922, is a classic of nature writing, and until his death in 1977 he urged his compatriots to cherish the natural world as their national..... More
Buffon: a life in natural history.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), was perhaps the most important of Charles Darwin's predecessors. More
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