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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience by Gregory Berns
$29.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
What is it like to be a dog' A bat' Or a dolphin' To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step- they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, ...Show more
Bodacious: the Shepherd Cat by Suzanna Crampton
$22.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm. 'I am Bodacious, The Shepherd Cat , and this is my story. I wasn't always called Bodacious. I must have been called something else in my kitten-hood in the nea ...Show more
Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis
$34.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshir ...Show more
Juniper : The Happiest Fox by Jessika Coker
$29.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
With millions of followers on Instagram, Juniper the fox is the internet's cutest pet Juniper's adorable snaggletooth smile and fun-loving personality are vibrantly captured in this heartwarming book. With gorgeous photos, a charming narrative about Juniper's life, and a behind-the-scenes look at what ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
$32.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called ...Show more
Finding Gobi - The True Story of a Little Dog with a Lot of Stamina by Dion Leonard
$19.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the ...Show more
Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog: A True Story of Friendship and Heroism by Steven Jamieson; Alison Bowyer (Contribution by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
When Steve Jamieson met Bilbo, a chocolate Newfoundland puppy, little did he know that the small bundle of fluff would grow to take up a huge space in his heart and change his life forever. The pair were inseparable, with Bilbo accompanying Steve to his job as head lifeguard of Sennen beach in Cornwall ...Show more
A Dog Year by Jon Katz
$27.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
When Jon Katz takes in a young troubled border collie, his calm, sedate life will never be the same again. Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc from the moment he arrives at the airport, when it takes Jon, two ...Show more
Bono: The Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My Way Home by Helen Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
The Otters' Tale by Simon Cooper
$26.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 'The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far' Richard Shelton, Times Literary SupplementWhen Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the ...Show more
Dogs with Jobs by Laura Greaves
$40.00 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
Meet Molly Polly, the diabetes alert dog whose round-the-clock job is to keep her two young owners healthy; Bailey, the Assistant Director of Seagulls, who keeps the pesky birds away from the heritage vessels at the Australian National Maritime Museum; and Daisy, the Collie mix who's a full-time guide d ...Show more
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants by Anthony Lawrence; Lawrence Anthony; Graham Spence; Naomi Clark (Introduction by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - dangerous and unpredictable, they would be killed if Anthony wouldn't take ...Show more
