Entangled Life Illustrated: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$75.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'. Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'. Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventur ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
Letters of a Naturalist - The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island by Richard Treacy Henry; Susanne Hill; John Hill; Victoria Jaenecke
$150.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Richard Henry was New Zealand's first wildlife ranger and champion of our flightless birds. He was appointed caretaker of Resolution Island in 1894, living and working -often alone- for fourteen years in wild and remote Dusky Sound. Henry's perceptive observations and descriptions of the wildlife of D ...Show more
The Forgotten Forest: In Search of the Lost Plants and Fungi of Aotearoa by Robert Vennell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A guide to the spectacular oddities of the New Zealand forest, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees and Secrets of the Sea. Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to look, are some of the most remarkable creatures. Overlooked and unsung, this is the forgotten forest: a world ...Show more
Wild Honey Bees - An Intimate Portrait by Ingo Arndt; Jürgen Tautz; Thomas D. Seeley (Foreword by)
$58.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A lavishly illustrated exploration of the mysterious, hidden world of forest-dwelling wild honey bees--with new insights that promise to revolutionize conservation and beekeeping The honey bee, a key pollinator, is now an endangered species, threatened by human activity and loss of biodiversity. Bec ...Show more
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual Guide to Prehistoric Animals by DK
$65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From the origin of life, through the age of dinosaurs stalked by the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex, to the earliest humans, this book tells the story of life on Earth. Dinosaurs may be the stars of the show, but the book is truly comprehensive, with fossil plants, invertebrates, amphibians, fish, birds, ...Show more
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
$54.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou ...Show more
The Barn : The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm by Sally Coulthard
$43.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling nature writer Sally Coulthard. Dominating the farmyard of the house where Sally Coulthard and her husband live in the gentle Howardian Hills of North Yorkshire is a large, stone-built barn. When Sally disc ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson
$39.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An urgent and riveting new book from the bestselling author- his first major work of popular science and environmental activism - part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for change. Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will ...Show more