Being a Beast by Charles Foster
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Reading Level: very good
Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, eating earthworms and learning to sense the landscape by smell rather than sight. He tri ...Show more
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by George Ewart Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-cen ...Show more
The Leaping Hare by George Ewart Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. A frequent feature in the mythology of many cultures, the hare has been linked with mystery and witchcraft throughout civilisation, and still to ...Show more
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
Bird Love by Wenfei Tong; Mike Webster (Consultant Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Birds
Exploring the sex life of birds and their wide range of mating and parenting habits, Bird Love gives you a detailed insight into bird family life. More than 90 percent of birds appear to be monogamous, but beneath the surface there is a huge variety of mating systems in play, from temporary monogamy an ...Show more
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
$18.00 NZD
$28.00 (35% off)
Category: Nature Writing
World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-ter ...Show more
Dragonflies and Damselflies of New Zealand by Marinov Milen
$50.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Reading Level: very good
Dragonflies and damselflies are among the most spectacular organisms on the planet. They have survived on earth for more than 325 million years, through a series of mass extinctions, by being exquisite examples of evolutionary adaptation: superb flyers with extraordinary vision and startling colours. Th ...Show more
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing - What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley
$90.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Sibley Guides
"Can birds smell?" "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?" "Do robins 'hear' worms?" In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is ...Show more
City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
$24.00 NZD
Category: Trees & Plants
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us--humans, animals, trees--find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning ...Show more
Stronghold - One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon - Before It's Too Late by Tucker Malarkey
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey's enthralling account of an unlikely visionary, Guido Rahr, and his crusade to protect the world's last bastion of wild salmon. One of the most determined creatures on earth, salmon have succeeded in returning from the sea to their birth rivers to spawn for hundreds of tho ...Show more
Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
$25.00 NZD
Category: General
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the Engl ...Show more
Till the Cows Come Home - The Story of Our Eternal Dependence by Philip Walling
$28.00 NZD
Category: General
'A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past or the future should read.' Rosamund Young, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows _______________________________ The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the Sunday Times bests ...Show more