Green Guide: Mammals of Australia by Terence Lindsey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Australian Green Guides
Information is organized simply, with individual species or group entries describing key characteristics such as where they are found, food requirements and behavioural habits. Each entry is accompanied by a photograph and, where appropriate, distribution maps. A key feature of the text is the "gee whiz ...Show more
The Ethnobotanical - A World Tour of Indigenous Plant Knowledge by Sarah Edwards
$69.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe, food to eat, materials to make clothes and shelter with, and medicine to treat and prevent disease. Their beauty can also enhance our mood and provide spi ...Show more
Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern approaches capturing the essence of these freest ...Show more
The Seaweed Revolution by Vincent Doumeizel
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
As featured on BBC News and TIME 'The potential of seaweed, or marine algae, to transform our world is huge... excellent book'New Scientist The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow. Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas satu ...Show more
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and are ...Show more
Australia's Birds in Watercolour by David Freedman; Richard Steele; Robin Hill (Foreword by)
$99.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
Australia's Birds in Watercolour is a beautifully illustrated book that celebrates Australia's wonderful and diverse bird life through the unique vision of David Freedman, a masterful watercolour artist. With 304 pages and 250 illustrations, it features Richard Steele's informative, very personal and en ...Show more
The Cat Encyclopedia: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
A stunning celebration of all things feline, from domestication and anatomy to practical advice on breeds and cat care Are you a feline fanatic? Could you tell the difference between a Housecat and an Ojos Azules? Do you want to know how to keep your kitty happy and healthy? The Cat Encyclopedia is a co ...Show more
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Trees by Leonard Cronin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
An authoritative and indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating trees, fully updated and revised.
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more
Name That Flower - The Identification of Flowering Plants by Ian Clarke, Helen Lee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
This is a bestselling source of information on how to go about identifying flowering plants. The dissection of flowers, the methods of observing their structure, and the application of these to identification are clearly described.Profusely illustrated with over 130 detailed line drawings and black and ...Show more
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
<b>This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us? - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of <i>The Gene</i>&l ...Show more