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A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox.
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Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand
A riveting blend of nature writing, indigenous storytelling and great adventure in the NZ alps
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Nature Is Never Silent
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.
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The Great Forest: The Rare Beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands
A tribute to an extraordinary landscape now under severe threat. The exquisite photographs reveal the mountain ash forests of central Victoria to be one of Australia's great natural treasures.
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Join award-winning author and art historian Janine Burke in this enchanting and illuminating meander along forest trails within art, myth, history and present day.
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The Language of Butterflies
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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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The Sky Atlas
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The Mosquito
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Australia’s First Naturalists
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Your Backyard Birds
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Kosciuszko
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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 Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District
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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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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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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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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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