Natural History & Animal Books
In Defence Of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
John Bradshaw is one of the world's leading dog experts, and In Defence of Dogs gives us a uniquely authoritative insight into what dogs would ask us for, if only they knew how.
The dog has been mankind's faithful compan... Buy or find out more →
The Field Guide To The Birds Of Australia (8th Edition)
$45.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The definitive and most respected guide to Australian bird identification.
First published in 1980, Graham Pizzey′s field guide combines a depth and breadth of knowledge with beautiful, full-colour illustrations by Frank... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Chickens
$19.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
A gloriously indulgent treat for chicken-lovers, Beautiful Chickens revels in the fine detailing of fancy fowl from all over the world. Each model is shown in its most characteristic stance and at the height of its good ... Buy or find out more →
Unlikely Friendships
$19.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ”
Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships docu... Buy or find out more →
The Keepers And The Kept: Confessions Of A Zookeeper
$0.00 – Paperback book / New Holland Pub
This is a light-hearted and fun account of the life of a zoo from a zookeeper's perspective.
Author Terry Boylan worked as a zookeeper for more than 40 years in British and Australian zoos, including Sydney's Taronga Zoo... Buy or find out more →
Antarctica: That Sweep Of Savage Splendour
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Throughout history, Antarctica has captivated and overwhelmed with its stunning landscapes and wildlife, and extremes of climate and isolation.
The massive seventh continent has witnessed feats of human endurance in the ... Buy or find out more →
A Guide To Urban Wildlife: 250 Creatures To Meet On Your Street
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Abc Books
Have you ever wondered what that peculiar insect sitting on a leaf in your backyard is called? What about the behaviour of those acrobatic possums that swing along the phone lines at dusk? And the beautiful lizard that l... Buy or find out more →
Human Planet
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Bbc Books
Human Planet is the first natural history documentary series to turn the camera on ourselves, the human species. Taking the same approach as Planet Earth, it will explain how human beings have learnt to live on every hab... Buy or find out more →
The Natural History Book
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley
A monumental and extraordinarily beautiful guide to the Earth's natural wonders
Five years in the making, covering over 5,000 species, The Natural History Book is one-of-a-kind; the only book to offer a complete survey o... Buy or find out more →
The Illustrated Guide To Chickens: How To Choose Them, How To Keep Them
$39.99 – Hardcover book / A & C Black
A delightfully illustrated guide the 100 most familiar breeds of chickens in Europe and North America.
This book covers the 100 most familiar chicken breeds in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in ... Buy or find out more →
The Life And Love Of Trees
$80.00 – Hardcover book / Headline
Trees are vital - the roots and the shelter for our existence. Without them we simply wouldn't be here. From that starting point, Lewis Blackwell celebrates and explores the miracle of the tree in our lives today. In hig... Buy or find out more →
Seeing Further: 350 Years Of The Royal Society And Scientific Endeavour
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific discovery and exploration. The oldest scientific academy in existence, its backbone is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists in history incl... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
With illustrations by Jane Milloy
'Enjoyable … entertaining … masterful' Stephen Moss, Guardian
'Simply fizzing with ideas … his heart is with the birds' Literary Review &nb... Buy or find out more →
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View Of Science And Nature
$24.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,” said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two ... Buy or find out more →
Bird Australia
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley
This book celebrates our amazing bird varieties, from lyrebirds with their superb ability to mimic sounds, to strange flightless birds and dazzling parrots. Unrivalled in scope, this major title will appeal to anyone wit... Buy or find out more →
Wildflower
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Hachette
With compassion and an unswerving regard for the truth, veteran journalist Mark Seal lays bare the deeply moving, inspirational story of Joan Root, a dedicated environmentalist and Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker. He ... Buy or find out more →
Roger's World: Towards A New Understanding Of Animals
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Roger’s World unfolds over the course of Charles Siebert’s last night with Roger, a chimpanzee in a Florida retirement home for former ape entertainers: stars of the big screen, TV, and Big Top circuses. Of the 46 retire... Buy or find out more →
The Metamorphosis Of Plants
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora... Buy or find out more →
Naming The Rose
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Random House
The rose brings beauty and joy to those who grow and admire them. Often a rose will bear a person's name, for the breeding of roses is an art and, like all artists, the raisers of roses enjoy dedicating their creations t... Buy or find out more →
The Lotus Quest
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
The author goes in search of the mystery of the Lotus, sacred flower from Egypt to Japan, touching on its medicinal uses as well as the inspiration it has provided to Western artists. Most of all, he unveils a stunning v... Buy or find out more →
Hybrid: The History And Science Of Plant Breeding
$55.95 – Hardcover book / Univ. Of Chicago Pr.
Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from th... Buy or find out more →
Animals Make Us Human
$36.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
Grandin ("Animals in Translation"), famed for her decades-long commitment to treating livestock as humanely as possible on its way to slaughter, considers how humans and animals can best interact. Working from the premis... Buy or find out more →
Boom And Bust
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Csiro Publications
The authors draw on the natural history of Australia’s charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped to understand ... Buy or find out more →
Life In The Cape York Rainforest
$39.95 – Paperback book / Csiro Publications
The remote, beautiful and poorly known rainforests of Cape York Peninsula tell a special story about Australia’s historic and present-day connections to New Guinea. This book highlights the connections by examining the f... Buy or find out more →
Spectacular Snakes Of Australia
$39.95 – Paperback book / Csiro Publications
This book showcases snakes as beautiful creatures that play an important role in ecology. It portrays most of the species found in Australia, such as tiger snakes, copperheads, brown snakes, death adders and sea snakes, ... Buy or find out more →
One Hundred Birds To See Before You Die
$34.95 – Hardcover book / The Five Mile Press
This book is the ultimate birdwatcher's wish-list. Fiercely debated by two renowned birding authors using various criteria to arrive at their selection, this top 100 includes avian species that are endangered; common spe... Buy or find out more →
Thousand Dogs Taschen 25
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Taschen
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A Brush With Birds
$34.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
The paintings of Australian birds in A Brush with Birds are by artists whose work is represented in the National Library of Australia. They span the years from first settlement to the 1970s, telling us about the times as... Buy or find out more →
American Buffalo: In Search Of A Lost Icon
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a single wild buffalo in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds, Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to ... Buy or find out more →
The Roots Of Civilisation: Plants That Changed The World
$69.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
They feed us, shelter us, cure us and clean the air that we breathe. The Roots of Civilisation takes a closer look at the plants that most of us just take for granted, but which have changed the world, for better and for... Buy or find out more →
Spineless: Dealing With Wildlife In Your Home And Backyard
$19.99 – Paperback book / Jacana
Melbourne-based Bronwen Scott provides a straightforward guide to suburban wildlife, showing readers how to cultivate the good guys and banish the pests. Possums in the roof? Ants in the cupboards? Nits in the kids’ hair... Buy or find out more →
Australia's Remarkable Trees
$65.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Photography by Kimbal Baker
Australia's Remarkable Trees explores the extraordinary lives of fifty of Australia's oldest, largest and most unusual trees. Richly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, writer Richard ... Buy or find out more →
Art Of Nature
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Art of Nature is an astonishing visual record of the exploration of parts of the natural world that had never previously been documented. It features many of the greatest natural history artists of the last 300 years – M... Buy or find out more →
Fireflies, Honey And Silk
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
The beauty of butterflies, the cheerful chirp of crickets, the ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertaining explorati... Buy or find out more →
A World Without Bees
$24.95 – Paperback book / Guardian Books
‘If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.’ - Albert Einstein
Honeybees are dying. In America, one in three hives was left lifeless at the beginning of 2008... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
The companion volume to the best-selling The Bedside Book of Birds.
The Bedside Book of Beasts blends the best writing about lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, hyenas, bears, wolves and other alpha predators and... Buy or find out more →
Amazing Rare Things: The Art Of Natural History In The Age Of Discovery
$32.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
An exquisite selection of 160 natural history drawings and watercolors by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby, and from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo, works all held in the... Buy or find out more →
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
$35.00 – Paperback book / Profile
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explo... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to P... Buy or find out more →