Wildlife of New Zealand by Julian Fitter
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The essential field guide to the wildlife of New Zealand. New Zealand is home to an amazing and distinctive flora and fauna, most of it found only in this country. This fully revised field guide covers most of the birds, mammals and reptiles that you are likely to see, as well as a good selection of inv ...Show more
Getting Closer: Rediscovering Nature Through Bird Photography by Paul Sorrell
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
With Getting Closer to guide you, and a camera in hand, discover how to connect with nature by using a photographer’s eye. Using birds as his focus, the author offers a simple, practical path for readers to ‘rewild’ themselves and engage with the natural world, while improving their photographic skills ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy - The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insect ...Show more
Which New Zealand Spider? by Andrew Crowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Series: Which...?
A simple way to identify New Zealand's native and introduced spiders.In this companion to his award-winning Which New Zealand Insect? Andrew Crowe showcases New Zealand spiders, with practical details on how, when and where to find them. The author continues in his typically entertaining style to weave ...Show more
New Zealand's Native Trees (revised edition) by John Dawson, Rob Lucas et al
$130.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
A complete revision, of the best selling, award-winning landmark book on New Zealand’s native trees. New Zealand’s Native Trees is a landmark book, the kind that is published only once in a generation. It celebrates our unique and magnificent native forests, and describes and generously illustrates m ...Show more
Volcanoes and Earthquakes (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell; Gordon Ell
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Series: The New Zealand Series
Get ready for a new take on New Zealand society, history and geography in one of the first two books in The NZ Series, a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Here in striking and clear terms are the earth movements above and below New Zealand - with ...Show more
Pioneer Women (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Series: The New Zealand Series
The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Pioneer Women captures the experiences of European women who settled in New Zealand in the nin ...Show more
The Kiwi: An Endangered New Zealand Icon by Matt Elliott
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The Kiwi: Endangered New Zealand Icon is about our historical fascination with a unique national icon - the kiwi - and the extraordinary efforts being made to save it from extinction.
Tuatara by Alison Cree
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Pick up virtually any textbook on vertebrate evolution and you will find mention of the curious reptile known as tuatara (Sphenodon). The special evolutionary status of tuatara as the last of the rhynchocephalians - one of the four orders of living reptiles - is unquestioned. Wild members of the sole li ...Show more
New Zealand Birds In Pictures by Kimball Chen
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
From the barely visible wings of the flightless kiwi to the immense wingspan of the wandering albatross, New Zealand's fragile islandecosystem is home to a diverse array of spectacular birds.Delve into the fascinating world of our feathered friends with author and wildlife photographer Kimball Chen. Fro ...Show more
The Hunters: The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey by Debbie Stewart
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork we hear calling at night, the falcon that appears on our $20 note and the hawks we see swooping on the grisly remains of dead critters on the road, this book takes a close look at these fascinating birds and the people w ...Show more
Beyond Manapouri by Knight Catherine
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Beyond Manapouri: 50 Years of Environmental Politics in New Zealand traces the evolution of environmental administration in New Zealand since the dawn of the environmental era in the late 1960s. The national campaign to stop the government from raising the water level in the scenically spectacular Lake ...Show more