How to Speak Whale - A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$29.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake'A must-read' New Scientist'Enthralling' George Monbiot'Brilliant' Philip HoareWildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill had always liked whales. But when one breached onto his kayak, nearly killing him, he became obsessed.This book traces his extraordina ...Show more
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, ...Show more
Country Matters - A Countryside Companion, from Chickens and Chainsaws to Meadows and Mushrooming by Meg Clothier; Jonny Clothier
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A delightful guide to the countryside: full of fascinating facts, local lore and useful advice
The Bee Bible: 50 Ways to Keep Bees Buzzing by Sally Coulthard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
We need bees. We rely on them not only to pollinate our planet but to sweeten our lives with the fruits of their labours - honey, beeswax, Royal Jelly. These tiny, hardworking insects have transformed our lives with their quiet diligence; fertilising much of our food, most of the wild plants we rely on, ...Show more
Deer Man - Seven Years in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years. 'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times 'A story of extraordinary power and tenderness' Charles Foster 'A startling portrait of an animal that is both familiar ...Show more
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives by Stefano Mancuso
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The remarkable stories of trees that have shaped human history - from the wooden ladder that solved a crime to France's revolutionary Liberty Trees. Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and acces ...Show more
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
"Original and readable." --Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022 "A superb, inspiring work." --Winner, Inaugural National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbin ...Show more
Wild Light: A printmaker s day and night by Angela Harding
$65.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. "I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or bright midday light changes the way we see the things ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
Wild Maps: A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds by Mike Higgins
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a cartographic journey through our planet's weirdest and most wonderful phenomena. Which migrating birds fly the furthest? Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries' leaders don't believe in climate change? Where were our planet' ...Show more
Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution by Lynn Margulis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited variati ...Show more
Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds by ROYALL, STUART
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From t ...Show more