The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the ...Show more
When the Last Lion Roars - The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts by Sara Evans
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The story of a continent losing its most charismatic predator at unprecedented speed. The illegal killing of Cecil--a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion--by an American big-game hunter in 2015 sparked international outrage. More significantly, it drew the world's attention to the devast ...Show more
The Animal's Companion: People and Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story by Jacky Colliss Harvey
$40.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: 26,000 Year Love Story
The earliest evidence of a human and a pet can be traced as far back as 26,000 BC in France where a boy and his 'canid' took a walk through a cave. Their foot and paw prints were preserved together on the muddy cave floor, and smoke from the torch the boy carried was left on the walls, allowing archaeol ...Show more
I, Mammal - The Story of What Makes Us Mammals by Liam Drew
$24.99 NZD
Category: General
What makes a mammal a mammal? The answer is more complicated than you think I, Mammal is a history of mammals and their ancestors and of how science came to grasp mammalian evolution. After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to ...Show more
Which New Zealand Bird? by Andrew Crowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Birds | Series: Which...?
Use best-selling author Andrew Crowe's method to identify New Zealand birds by size and habitat in this simple, illustrated guide that will appeal to children and adults alike.Which bird is it? Simply note where you spotted the bird and how big it is. Then follow the simple steps to find out which bird ...Show more
Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
$70.00 NZD
Category: Birds | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating, in-depth account of New Zealand's birds, which spans their discovery, their place in both Pakeha and Maori worlds, their survival and conservation, and the illustrations and art they have inspired. In 1872, the first instalments of Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ap ...Show more
Powell's Native Animals of New Zealand by Brian Gill (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The 4th edition of this classic work, first published in 1947. It provides a simple ready reference for identifying common New Zealand animals, ranging from the simplest invertebrates through to mammals. The text has been updated and Powell's illustrations have been rescanned from the originals, resulti ...Show more
The Brilliance of Birds by Skye Wishart; Edin Whitehead
$55.00 NZD
Category: General
Who knew that the morepork, our only surviving native owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the bar-tailed godwit triples its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the New Zealand dabchick has an in-built buoyancy system, able to trap or deco ...Show more
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Reading Level: near fine
A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Salisbury plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson's wit, humour and deep love of nature make him ...Show more