Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL ‘Miraculous … An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew’ PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How ...Show more
Fragile Earth: Dramatic Images of Our Changing Planet by Collins Maps Staff
$49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Using images from the air, land and space, this work brings together dramatic natural and man-made events. It traces the path Hurricane Katrina took through New Orleans, and looks at the damage done to the presidential palace in Baghdad during the war in Iraq. It also provides a look at the effects our ...Show more
A Sting in the Tale (The Birds and the Bees) by Dave Goulson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. As a small boy, Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife - from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments with taxide ...Show more
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
" An elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-The Wall Street Journal"A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."-Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsONE OF ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Look Inside Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Laura Cowan
$22.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Look Inside
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be in an earthquake, or close to a volcano when it erupts? With lots of flaps to lift, this book takes you on a tour of shaking cities and rumbling volcanoes to discover why these forces happen, how they shape our planet, and how people live in places where t ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more