The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
27.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood by Richard A. Fortey
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape. 'The woods are the great beauty of this country. ...Show more
Nests by Susan Ogilvy
50.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A unique celebration of the architectural ingenuity of birds, by an acclaimed illustratorSusan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it insi ...Show more
The Green Planet (HB) by Simon Barnes
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes. There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magic ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons by Lev Parikian
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In the West we consider the passing of the year through the prism of four seasons. Other cultures see nature's turn quite differently, however. The traditional Japanese calendar recognises that the subtle changes of the natural world with a total of seventy-two microseasons (kō) - inspiration for a new ...Show more
Invasive Predators in NZ: Disaster on Four Small Paws by Carolyn M King
50.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand's endemic fauna evolved in isolation until first ...Show more
The Story of Life in 10½ Chapters by Marianne Taylor
45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An exploration of the key aspects of life on Earth - now and in the future - through the study of 10 and a half species. If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of L ...Show more
Notes from a Summer Cottage - The Intimate Life of the Outside World by Nina Burton
37.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
'I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited...' Notes from a Summer Cottage by Nina Burton is a beautifully written nature memoir about the time spent renovating her late mother's cottage in the Swedish countryside, and all ...Show more
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An urgent and riveting new book from the bestselling author- his first major work of popular science and environmental activism - part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for change. Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
25.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...Show more
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his perspective on life ...Show more