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
Endeavouring Banks: exploring collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771.
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, publisher's boards, colour illustrations. When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators who returned with unprecedented collections of artefacts, specimens and drawings, opening up a whole world of... More
Best Australian science writing 2016.
Sydney: New South Books, 2016. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. 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... More
Alexander Macleay: from Scotland to Sydney.
Kulnura: Paradise Publishing, 2012. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs. Alexander Macleay (1767 - 1848) was a controversial and important figure of Australian colonial society. The Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney and Macleay Street in Kings Cross remind us of the significance of Alexander Macleay... More
House of lost worlds: dinosaurs, dynasties and the story of life on earth.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Large octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations. This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on Earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way... More
Darwin and women: a selection of letters.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Darwin and Women focuses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that... 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
Lost animals: extinction and the photographic record.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs. Flick through any book on extinct animals and the eye is immediately drawn to the handful of photographs that will appear, often tinted sepia or black and white (usually featuring the same small number of images, again and... More
Age of wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on... 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 Putnam, 2013. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. 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
Darwin: portrait of a genius.
New York: Penguin, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. 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 a.... More
Burke and Wills: the scientific legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Co-published with State Library of Victoria and The Royal Society of Victoria. This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian... More
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: footsteps in the forest.
London: The Natural History Museum, 2013. Small octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Alfred Russel Wallace is justly famous for his discoveries in Southeast Asia, from where he wrote to Charles Darwin outlining his theory of evolution by natural selection. His career as a tropical naturalist, however, began in the... 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
Tamed and untamed: close encounters of the animal kind.
White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, A collection of essays penned by two of the world's most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, explores the minds, lives, and mysteries of animals as diverse as snails, house cats, hawks, sharks, dogs, lions, and even octopuses... More
Our zoo: the real story of my life at Chester Zoo.
London: Headline, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of opening a zoo without bars, his four-year-old daughter June had no idea how extraordinary her life would become. Soon her best friend was a chimpanzee... 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
Dear Sir: sixty-nine years of Alfred Russel Wallace letters to the editor.
Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), colleague of Charles Darwin, co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection, "father" of the field of evolutionary biogeography, vocal socialist and spiritualist, land reform theorist, intense social critic, etc., etc., was one of the most captivating figures of his... More
Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886 - 1887 travel diary: the North American lecture tour.
Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) is remembered as one of history's foremost naturalist-explorers for his twelve years of collecting activities in South America and the East Indies circa 1848 to 1852 and 1854 to 1862. In this book the last... More
Naturalists at sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, map, fine copy in dustwrapper. On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the eighteenth century, naturalists were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at... More
Naturalists at sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, map. On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the eighteenth century, naturalists were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown... More
The invention of nature: the adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
London: John Murray, 2016. Small octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, maps. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express 'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb biography'... More
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