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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
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
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
Spiders - A Diverse Natural History by Ivy Ivy Press; Norman Platnick
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Bark spiders spin webs ten times stronger than Kevlar. Jumping spiders are capable of learning, recognizing, and remembering colors. Recluse spiders can tolerate six months of extreme drought and have a toxin-laden bite that can necessitate skin grafts. This title explores the huge diversity of spider ...Show more
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren consider ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Fossils of New Zealand by Hamish Campbell; Alan Beu; James Crampton; Liz Kennedy; Marianna Terezow
$25.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
A new addition to the popular New Holland series of natural history and science photographic guides, the thirteenth title focuses on plant and animal fossils commonly found in New Zealand. Fossils are the preserved remains of past life and are very much part of the natural environment in this country. T ...Show more
Murder Most Florid - Inside the Mind of a Forensic Botanist by Mark Spencer
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Dr Mark Spencer is a forensic botanist - in other words, he helps police with cases where plants can unlock clues to solve crimes, from murder and rape to arson and burglary. Murder Most Florid is an enthralling, first-person account that follows Mark's unconventional and unique career, one that takes ...Show more
Jellyfish: A Natural History by Lisa-Ann Gershwin
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Jellyfish are mysterious creatures, luminously beautiful with remarkably varied life cycles. These simple, ancient animals are found in every ocean at every depth, and have lived on Earth for at least the last 500 million years. Ominously, they are also increasing in number as they adapt well to marine ...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 ...Show more
Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by Joe Studholme
$65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Beautiful Earth: Our Planet Explored from Above by Dirk H. Lorenzen
$49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Beautiful, constantly changing yet endangered: this is what our planet looks like from the skies. Beautiful Earth offers a completely new viewpoint on our well-known globe. From fascinating cloud formations caught by weather satellites to erupting volcanoes, sand storms or urban developments with all en ...Show more
In Search of the Great Tuskers by Johan Marais
$47.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In Search of the Great Tuskers is Johan Marais' quest to find the greatest living tuskers on the African continent. Johan's journey takes him from the Kruger National Park and the Tembe Elephant Park in Southern Africa, to the Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania and the Amboseli and Tsavo National Pa ...Show more
The Secret Elephants: The Rediscovery of the World's Most Southerly Elephants by Gareth Patterson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The elephants of the Knysna forest have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local forestry department maintained that there was only one surviving Knysna elephant, the s ...Show more