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Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
A Bird a Day by Dominic Couzens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The beauty and fascination of birds is unrivalled. Every day of the year, immerse yourself in their world with an entry from A Bird of Day, where Dominic Couzens offers an insight into everything from the humble Robin to Emperor Penguins, who are in the midst of Arctic storms protecting their young on 1 ...Show more
Buller's Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fauna
This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement, specially photographed and reproduced in full colour using high qual ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. Sentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer' - ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works. ...Show more
Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting; Robert Ferguson (Translator)
$46.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
THE BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Whether you're a seasoned woodcutter, or your passion is yet to be kindled, NORWEGIAN WOOD is the perfect fireside read, and an ideal seasonal gift. Chopping and stacking wood is a pastime where the world makes sense once more. Because ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean - Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN **New York Times Bestseller** The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas. The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet. Too big to police, and under no cle ...Show more
The Running Hare : The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$24.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the ...Show more
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to ...Show more
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
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. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee m ...Show more
In Search of the Canary Tree - The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World by Lauren E. Oakes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss ...Show more
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Clare Horatio
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arcti ...Show more
