Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
$14.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden - and not so hidden - costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environ ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
New Life Stories: More Stories from His Acclaimed Radio 4 Series by Sir David Attenborough
$46.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A personal view of the natural world Life Stories 2 is the second installment of Sir David's look back at the wildlife that has captured his imagination and enthusiasm over his distinguished career. It is a fascinating trip around the world in search of extraordinary plants, animals and people, in the c ...Show more
Galapagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy by Tui De Roy
$75.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
This sumptuous large-format book was first produced in 2009 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Charles Darwin Foundation on Galapagos. The book comprises a series of invited essays under the editorship of world-renowned photographer and long-term Galapagos resident, Tui de Roy, w ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$70.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
This is 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, discover every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic detail with Earth. Visit 400 of the tallest, longest, widest, most significant an ...Show more
In Search of the South Pole by Kari Herbert; Huw Lewis-Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever. On ...Show more
The Dinosaur Hunters: In Association with the American Museum of Natural History by Lowell Dingus
$59.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The "Dinosaur Hunters" tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs, from the eighteenth-century interest in sea dragons to present day work with DNA, through the men and women who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge. Through the inclusion of 15 facsimile documents, rare photographs and m ...Show more
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. And it is the story of th ...Show more
New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Vol 2 by Dennis P Gordon
$35.00 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: Natural History
This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes w ...Show more
Mrs Moreau's Warbler : How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
$36.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
We use names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? And where did they come from? From the common starling to the many-colored rush tyrant, the names we have given to birds are some of the most vivid and evocative words in the English language. They can ...Show more
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Happened by Andrew Marr
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good