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The Oak Papers
Blending personal experience with cultural legacy, this homage to the oak tree presents a case for the important role it plays today: in our landscape and in our lives
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from...
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The Language of Butterflies
In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resilient creatures-the butterfly-shedding light on the role that they play in our...
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The Progress of This Storm
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other
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Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face in leaving it behind.
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Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
Fire Country is a cry from the heart asking for change in how Australia cares for country.
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
A stunning meditation on the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship to other species.
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Remarkable Trees
Artists and botanists alike have been inspired by trees for centuries, and a varied and beautiful range of images from the unrivalled archive at Kew illustrate the stories, to create this enlightening and enchanting book.
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Mallee Country: Land, People, History
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present
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Bird Bonds
An absorbing, compelling insight into the unique and extraordinary lives of Australian native birds by a leading expert in the field.
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The Mosquito
The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.
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The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning
One woman's journey to overcome grief by delving into an overlooked wonder of nature.
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Life at Walnut Tree Farm
The story, mainly in pictures, but also in words, of the rebuilding of the 16th-century Suffolk farmhouse that the environmentalist Roger Deakin lived in from the early 1970s until his death in 2006.
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A Cloud a Day
Passionate cloud spotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney gives you 365 clouds, one for each day, in his stunning illustrated book.
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Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World
The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, Heida, former model and feminist heroine has become an international bestseller and won both the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and Women's Literature Prize
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Australia’s First Naturalists
Penny Olsen and Lynette Russell have gathered together Aboriginal peoples' contributions to demonstrate the crucial role they played in early Australian zoology.
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Wayfinding
In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity
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Extraordinary Insects
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning.
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The Salt Path
The Salt Path is an honest and inspiring true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world. Ultimately, it is a portrayal of home, and how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most...
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Your Backyard Birds
A beautiful, inspiring and heartwarming book about our human relationships with the birds who share our backyards.
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Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story
Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart.
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The Wisdom of Wolves
Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun - these are the golden rules of wolves. These remarkably intelligent animals take empathetic care of their old and injured, bring up...
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Kosciuszko
The disappearance of two young skiers on Mount Kosciuszko in 1928 is the jumping-off point for a history of Australia between the wars, in Kosciuszko: A Search For Young Australia
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Capturing Nature
The ground-breaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed in this volume for the first time. Capturing Nature reveals this fascinating visual archive for the...
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The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing.
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The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the...
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Europe: A Natural History
About 100 million years ago, the interaction of three continents-Asia, North America and Africa-formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the Europe of today, a place of exceptional diversity, rapid change and high...
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The Seabird’s Cry
The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire - beautifully illustrated by artist Kate...
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The Otters' Tale
When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Yet move in they did, allowing him to...
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H is for Hawk
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the...
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Silent Spring
Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.
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Landmarks
Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. This is a guide to literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands...
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Where Song Began
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe.
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