Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century by David Walker
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope. Generic Asia has been imagined, vis ...Show more
Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers by Sarah Raven
75.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In a new, practical format - the stunning book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven. Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful w ...Show more
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places by Bill Streever
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention o ...Show more
Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia by Dorling Kindersley
30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Following in the footsteps of DK's bestselling adult title Animal, which sold in excess of 2 million copies, Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia reveals the wonders of the animal kingdom to a younger readership. Structured by animal group with separate entries for every notable type of animal, from ants and ...Show more
How Long Can a Fly Fly?: 175 Answers to Possible and Impossible Questions About Animals by Lars-Ake Janzon
29.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Get to know more than the usual facts and stats about animals, both familiar and rare! "How Long Can a Fly Fly?" will answer all your animal questions, along with plenty more you've never even thought to ask. This fun and educational book, good for all ages, is filled with fascinating information about ...Show more
Underwater Eden: Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth by Gregory S. Stone
77.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago. That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dyi ...Show more
Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth by Jim Luhr
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
This title offers a breathtaking and inspirational exploration of planet Earth. From the fiery mass of the Earth's core to the tip of the highest ice-capped mountain, explore every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic detail with the "Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth". Visit 400 of th ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Borneo by Wong Tsu Shi
34.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The author's high quality photographs are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation and the main sites for viewing the listed species. An all- important checklist of all of th ...Show more
Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens by David H Benzing
76.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Often growing far above the ground, air plants (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots only for attachment in the crowns of larger, usually woody plantsor to objects such as rocks and buildingsand derive moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and ...Show more
Butterflies of the South Pacific by Brian and Hamish Patrick
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: Near Fine
A beautiful and highly portable illustrated guide to the butterflies of New Zealand, Hawaii, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, French Polynesia and other Pacific Islands. Features life-size and enlarged reproductions. The book also investigates the extraordinary migrations butterflies have achieved across vast oc ...Show more
Wonders of Life by Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? In this beautiful and definitive new book, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover how a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the Universe - life itself. There are thought to be a ...Show more