The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
$42.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
The Trials of Life - A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
A Flower A Day by Miranda Janatka
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Discover the life of flowers through science, folklore, history and art - every day of the year. Find a real understanding of nature's most beautiful expression with A Flower A Day - packed with fascinating science and stories and richly illustrated throughout with photographs and art. Horticultural wri ...Show more
Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar - A Window into Miocene Zealandia by Uwe Kaulfuss; Daphne Lee; John Conran
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
In Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar, authors Daphne Lee, Uwe Kaulfuss and John Conran share their passion and knowledge for Foulden Maar in Otago, New Zealand, a paleontological site of international significance and home to countless rare, well-preserved fossils. This beautifully illustrated book reve ...Show more
Earthshot - How to Save Our Planet by Jonnie Hughes; Prince William (Introduction by); David Attenborough (Foreword by); Shakira (Foreword by); Colin Butfield
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
As Prince William, founder of The Earthshot Prize, said, "The Earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet, or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate, and problem-solve. People can ...Show more
Beachcombing: A guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere by Ceridwen Fraser
$29.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squid, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces of planes or rockets ... Beaches are our windows to th ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Around the World In 80 Ser.
An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are int ...Show more
The Secrets of Great Botanists - And What They Teach Us about Gardening by Matthew Biggs
$34.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Welcome to the lives of 35 botanists from our past and present, driven by an insatiable desire to learn and discover, whose study of plants revolutionised the scientific world and increased our understanding of the importance plants have on our survival. Illustrated with beautiful period botanical wate ...Show more