Fox & I: an uncommon friendship by Catherine Raven
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, a ...Show more
IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet: The Brighter Side of the Fight Against Climate Change by Jennifer Crouch
$23.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A serious guide to the climate crisis with a humorous twist. The book includes rigorous scientific details to explain the issues that we face, while brightening the mood with humorous quotes, photos and illustrations. If you are a decent human being who believes in science, then IFLScience! How to F***i ...Show more
The Ferals that Ate Australia: From the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia by Guy Hull
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmare Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now domina ...Show more
The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History by Roland Ennos
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters – and has done since prehistory ...Show more
Aesop's Animals - The Science Behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Despite originating over than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard thei ...Show more
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall; Douglas Abrams
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Global Icons Series
A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope. The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe ...Show more
Banks (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped b ...Show more
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration
"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review(Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
From Adam Nicolson, winner of the Wainwright Prize 2018 Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its comp ...Show more
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated' Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Garde ...Show more
Living Planet by David Attenborough
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt t ...Show more