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Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'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
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to Dawkins by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of the idea of evolution, showing how it ha ...Show more
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Call of the Kokako by Jeff Hudson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Call of the Kokako is a journey of discovery into what makes the kokako ‘tick’ in order to save the species. This journey and work resulted in the restoration of the largest population of kokako in New Zealand with the help and dedication of many down to earth conservationists. Jeff Hudson spent 20 year ...Show more
The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'The clouds are nature's poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. Yet their beauty is so everyday as to be in danger of being overlooked ...' Gavin Pretor Pinney is the chai ...Show more
Incredible Journeys - Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation by David Barrie
$28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A compelling investigation of navigation in the animal kingdom.' Mail on Sunday 'David Barrie, who himself has sailed the oceans using a sextant, is passionate about navigation and describes in delightful detail the myriad ways in which animals get around ... ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
$43.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
Ocean : A Photicular Book by Dan Kainen (Created by); Carol Kaufmann (Text by, As told to)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A New York Times bestseller, Ocean is like being on a dive. Using Photicular technology, each image is like a 3-D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid visual experience. Open the book, and the reader is swept into the magic of an underwater world, face-to-face with a floating Yellow-Banded Sweet ...Show more
Bees and Their Keepers - In Religion, Revolution and Evolution by Frank Perry (Translator); Lotte Möller
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and ha ...Show more
A Forager's Treasury: A New Zealand Guide to Finding and Using Wild Plants by Johanna Knox
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: Very Good
A New Zealand guide to the art of foraging - the ultimate guide to finding sustainable, free and fascinating plants. In New Zealand's urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sus ...Show more
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places by Jeremy Purseglove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature a ...Show more