Finches of Australia by colin roberts (By (photographer), Editor)
$99.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Bird photography book featuring all Australian finch species and subspecies
Birds of Prey of Australia - A Field Guide 3ed. by Stephen Debus
$44.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Provides a field guide to Australia's iconic raptors and a handbook of our current knowledge. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated Third Edition of the pop ...Show more
Green Guide:Spiders of Australia by Terence Lindsey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Green Guide Ser.
This text is intended as an introduction to the habitats of the spiders of Australia, and to those Australian groups that are particularly common, interesting or significant to humans. Organized into behavioural categories, the five sections cover ancient spiders, roving spiders, sit-and-wait spiders, s ...Show more
Cloud Spotter - 30 Cards to Keep You Looking Up by Marcel George (Illustrator); Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Pause for a moment and look up at the skies. There is ever-changing beauty to behold in the cloudscape. Learn the difference between common cloud types (do you know your cirrostratus from your cumulonimbus?) and find out which is most likely to herald the arrival of the rains or approaching fair weather ...Show more
A First Book of Unique Aust Bird Songs (Sound Book) by Van Gessel Fred
$26.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Sound Bks.
Whether you're 5 years old or 65, it's never too late to get to know the feathered friends in your backyard or your surroundings, and learning their songs will open your eyes to a whole new world. Therefore this beautifully illustrated sound guide is the perfect way to introduce both children and adults ...Show more
The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$22.99 AUD
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
Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by Gooding, Mel
$59.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and co ...Show more
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
The story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that covers one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomi ...Show more
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life by Helen Scales
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising and ...Show more
Close Encounters with Marine Life by Nigel Marsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
Wildlife photography onland is nearly always donewith a telephoto lens, withthe photographer rarelygetting close to thesubject. Underwaterphotography on the otherhand is the completeopposite, with thephotographer required toget very close to thesubject to capture greatimages. Fortunately, mostmarine ani ...Show more
Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build by Peter Goodfellow
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
The essential illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nests--now fully revised and expanded Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, d ...Show more