The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity by Timothy Winegard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history. The Horse is an epic history that begins more than 5500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe when the first horse was tamed and an unbreakable bond with humans was ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty E
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everyt ...Show more
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world by Craig Foster
$36.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster Amphibious Soul is the long-awaited book from naturalist, adventurer, and scientific explorer Craig Foster. This is a raw and personal memoir (told here for the f ...Show more
Keeping Australian Native Stingless Bees by Greg Coonan
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
The Australian Native Bee Book Keeping Stingless Bee Hives for Pets, Pollination and Delectable Sugarbag Honey by Tim Heard
$40.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
This book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged wit ...Show more
Our Familiars - The Meaning of Animals in Our Lives by Anne Coombs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
How do animals guard, serve, and care for us? And how and why do we love them so much?Anne Coombs spent her entire life working to understand the profound answers that come from these two deceptively simple questions. Before her death in late 2021 she researched the topic extensively and reflected deepl ...Show more
Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds: Third edition by Pat ; Raoul Slater Peter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
The most updated bird ID book on the market. Beginners and experienced birdwatchers turn to this guide to identify the birds they see in their backyards and on bushwalking or birdwatching expeditions. Designed to slip easily into a pocket, back- pack or glove box. This is a new and updated version of th ...Show more
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small by Prophyry and Friends; M. D. Usher (Translated with commentary by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals--and our vital relationships with them How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers fro ...Show more
Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
$54.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal People have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of their native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the ki ...Show more
Beetles of Australia - Reed Concise Guide by Paul Zborowski
$16.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
This is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket guide to Australian beetles. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 200 images covering many of the species and families most likely to be encountered in Australia. The book includes a ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Fungi by Bruce Fuhrer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Offers fungi, photographed in their natural environment, with information on fungal biology, ecology, classification, distribution. This book also presents the roles of fungi in nature and spore prints. Descriptions give size range, shape and habitat information as well as spore print colour, spore desc ...Show more
Project Mushroom: A Modern Guide to Growing Fungi by Lorraine Caley, Jodie Caley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Project Mushroom is the practical and beautiful guide to growing, displaying, cooking and identifying edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are good for us and for the environment: they are a sustainable, easy-to-grow food source and full of nutritional goodness. But they can also be attractive and useful ad ...Show more