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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
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
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
The Royal Meteorological Society Weather Watcher's Three-Year Log Book by Royal Meteorological Society (COR)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Weather Watchers 3-Year Log Book offers the opportunity to record your own daily observations - in as much or as little detail as you wish. You can calculate weekly and monthly averages and then compare changing weather patterns over the three-year period. Is spring really coming earlier each year? ...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
A Lifetime in Galapagos by Tui De Roy
$60.00 NZD
Category: Photography
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe aboard a banana boat, bound for the Pacific to lead a different sort of life on Galapagos, one of self-sufficiency and living close to nature. She grew up on the islands and returned to them often over the next five decades. Discovering photo ...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
A Photographic Guide to Moths & Butterflies of New Zealand by Robert Hoare; Oliver Ball (Photographer)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Given that they are found in a huge range of habitats, from the porch light to the forests, pastures and high country, it is easy to stumble across New Zealand's moths and butterflies. That study is still very much a 'work in progress': in addition to about 1720 named species - the great majority of whi ...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
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
Tree of Rivers by John Hemming
$58.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, ...Show more
Blood of the TigerA Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species by J. A. Mills
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Blood of the Tiger takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world's rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires. Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever--from a menace few experts saw coming. There may be only three thousand wi ...Show more