The Field Guide to New Zealand Geology (revised edition 2009) by Jocelyn Thornton
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety of our rocks, minerals and fossils and describes what to look for in many areas where rock formation ...Show more
Which Native Forest Plant? by Andrew Crowe
25.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides | Series: Which...?
This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.Use Andr ...Show more
Which New Zealand Insect? by Andrew Crowe
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Series: Which...?
Ninety percent of New Zealand's insects are unique. Many of these little-known creatures play an important part in our ecology. This book is both a field guide and a gallery, displaying the variety and beauty of an often-overlooked side of New Zealand’s wildlife. Ideal for children, trampers, mountainee ...Show more
Six-Legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa by Lily Duval
54.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Why isn’t Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have wētā that can survive being frozen, weevils with ‘snouts’ almost as long as their bodies, and the world’s only alpine cicadas. There is mounting evidence that insect numbers are plummeting all over the world. But the insect apocalypse isn’t just a fara ...Show more
Takahe: Bird of Dreams by Alison Ballance
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Takahe are ‘strange and wonderful avian beasts’, big purple-blue birds with a striking red beak and legs. Once thought extinct, they were famously rediscovered in 1946 by Invercargill doctor Geoffrey Orbell, who found a small population living in a remote valley in the Murchison Mountains of Fiordland. ...Show more
Fungi of Aotearoa A2 D/s poster: a curious forager's field guide
0.00 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides
In Pursuit of Champions: The Inspiring Story of the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre by Keith Woodley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
'For nearly three decades, I have lived beside an estuary. Gleaming shell banks beneath vaulting sky, the clockwork pulse of tides and seasons, and vast muddy flats stocked with birds - these represent home. It is an attachment I cherish, a sense of place and fascination, continually renewed. But it was ...Show more
Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific by Ber van Perlo
95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides | Series: Princeton Illustrated Checklists Ser.
This is the only comprehensive and handy pocket guide that illustrates and describes the bird species of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific. Featuring more than 750 species illustrated in vivid and stunning detail on 95 color plates, this authoritative guide provides information on ke ...Show more
Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand's Glaciers by Lynley Hargreaves
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Written by Lynely Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape. Enormous rivers of ice once flowed out onto the Canterbury Plains, stretched beyond the current West ...Show more
Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar - A Window into Miocene Zealandia by Uwe Kaulfuss; Daphne Lee; John Conran
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
In Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar, authors Daphne Lee, Uwe Kaulfuss and John Conran share their passion and knowledge for Foulden Maar in Otago, New Zealand, a paleontological site of international significance and home to countless rare, well-preserved fossils. This beautifully illustrated book reve ...Show more