Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
39.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world. Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely dat ...Show more
Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
An original and revelatory journey through the three-billion-year history of slime - a substance upon which we and our world depend. Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is a both a vehicle for pathog ...Show more
Hortus Curious: Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi by Michael Perry
45.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
A fun and fact-filled exploration of forty fascinating plantsCelebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some look remarkably like animal ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
36.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Ocean by Gaelin Rosenwaks
115.00 NZD
135.00 (14% off)
Category: Natural World
For centuries, we have been fascinated by the sperm whale – the world’s largest toothed predator. Now you can experience an intimate underwater journey to connect with these majestic and gentle goliaths. Inspired by a life-changing childhood experience, Gaelin Rosenwaks set off on a journey to tell th ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times' 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changi ...Show more
Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit: What They Don't Tell You about the Climate Crisis by Assaad Razzouk
36.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
'Punchy, provocative and wonderfully readable' - David Shukman'Eye-popping and essential' - Rowan Hooper'A must-read' - Peter StottHave you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon offsets when you fly? Or recycle plastic? Go vegan? Or not have children? What if all these acti ...Show more
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
'A vaulting triumph of a book' Isabella Tree, author of WildingBird migration remains perhaps the most singularly compelling natural phenomenon in the world. Nothing else combines its global sweep with its inherent ability to engender wonder and excitement.The past two decades have seen an explosion in ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
59.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into The Future Of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
36.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever. In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event ...Show more
The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the Young People at the Heart of the Climate Crisis by Bella Lack
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis.This urgent book chronicles the lives of the diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, amplifying the stories of those living at the ...Show more
Eat Weeds - A Field Guide to Foraging: How to Identify, Harvest, Eat and Use Wild Plants by Diego Bonetto
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: near fine
There is food within three metres of your front door. Three generations ago it was common practice all over the world to collect this wild food; knowledge of what, where and when to forage was a necessary part of daily life. We still had lived experience of harvesting wild food with our own hands. But w ...Show more