Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed by Helen Scales
$24.99 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this worl ...Show more
The Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane'A nature writer with a knowledge and eye for detail that recalls Thomas Hardy and John McGahern.' The T ...Show more
Rat Island - Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue by William Stolzenburg
$0.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. ...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
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
$77.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That's right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you'll find out how. The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells ...Show more
Tamatea Dusky: The Remarkable Story of Fiordland's Dusky Sound by Peta Carey
$70.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The remarkable story of conservation and history in Fiordland's Tamatea/Dusky Sound, by Peta Carey. With a fascinating history, both Maori and European, it is the place where Captain Cook arrived in 1773, and where ground-breaking conservation began in New Zealand over 120 years ago.
Granta 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
A Celebration of David Attenborough Activity Book by Joyce Nathan
$17.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A highly diverting celebration of television's favourite naturalist, packed with games, trivia and Attenborough-inspired activities. Attenborough. Just saying the name makes everyone feel better. Words like 'dependable', 'inspiring' and 'soothing' cascade like the rains returning to the sun-parched s ...Show more
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
$15.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges: from his new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to herds of semi-feral catt ...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
Antlers of Water - Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today.Edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning Kathleen Jamie, and featuring prose, poetry and photography, this inspiring ...Show more