Ocean: Exploring the Marine World by Phaidon Editors
100.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Series: Explorer Series
A richly illustrated celebration of the world's oceans and seas through art, history, oceanography, marine biology, and culture The latest instalment in the bestselling Explorer Series, Ocean takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers ...Show more
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
32.99 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: near fine
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth – comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings ...Show more
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
Living Planet: the Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to ...Show more
Liquid Gold - Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey by Roger Morgan-Grenville
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
Two men decide to become beekeepers, learning about nature and about themselves in the process
Tree Sense - Ways of Thinking about Trees by Susette Goldsmith (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: near fine
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us - if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to plant trees. At the same time, urban intensification an ...Show more
Ice - Tales from a Disappearing Continent by Marco Tedesco; Alberto Flores D'Arcais (As told to)
34.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
One of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history. Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow res ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the ful ...Show more
Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life by Matin Durrani
21.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo drag ...Show more
The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai Earth-Based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in Diaspora by Layla K. Feghali
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan--a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots amid displacement and in diaspora.Herbalist and author Layla K. Feghali shares a nuanced and layered cultural history of the healing plant ...Show more
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.In these interwoven ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author ...Show more