Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by David Mabberley; Mel Gooding; Joe Studholme; Anon
$120.00 AUD
Category: Flora | Series: Botanical Treasures from Cook's 1st Voyage | Reading Level: new
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Mammals of Australia (Australian Geographic A Naturalist's Guide to the) by Peter Rowland; Chris Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian native animals | Series: Naturalists' Guides
This easy-to-use identification guide to the 300 mammal species most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distrib ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on a Life of Raising Chickens by Martin Gurdon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
This is a book about keeping chickens, but it is also feather-clad soap opera of primal urges. Written from firsthand experience, its pages are filled with the quest for absolute power, sex, death, jealousy, gender-bending, and huge vet bills. Beyond all the intrigue and drama, however, there are even s ...Show more
Trees: Between Earth and Heaven by Art Wolfe (Photographer); Gregory McNamee; Daniel J. Hinkley (Foreword by); Wade Davis (Introduction by)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths--from Bud ...Show more
Your Backyard Birds: Understanding the behaviours, habits and needs of our brilliant birds by Grainne Cleary
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
The remarkable relationships between our often cheeky birds and humans in Australian backyards all over the country are revealed with humour and charm. An ideal gift for any bird lover.
Beekeepers Journal: Illustrated Register by Flottum Kim
$35.00 AUD
Category: Insects & bugs
Store your notes, journal entries, and daily beekeeping records, observations, and to-do lists within the pages of this beautiful and inspirational journal.The Beekeeper's Journal will be right at home among your beekeeping supplies, because it's the perfect place to keep your thoughts, recipes, inspira ...Show more
Beekeeping: A Seasonal Guide by Ron Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Insects & bugs
A charming and practical guide for anyone wishing to keep bees, accompanying the would-be beekeeper through every season of the bee-keeping year. From spring awakening and summer swarms to the autumn honey harvest and providing winter protection, this essential resource guides you each step of the way. ...Show more
Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart by Sarah Harris; Don Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A curiosity of everything you ever wanted to know (or realised you never knew) about budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world.They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp ...Show more
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
An Australian Birding Year by R. BRUCE. RICHARDSON
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
A highly personal account of a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that saw Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birding across the entire continent of Australia in a camper van. Their aim was to see as many birds as possible together in the year. It began with a fly-past of two ...Show more
The Year of the Dogs by MUSI, VINCENT J.
$45.00 AUD
Category: Dogs & cats | Reading Level: near fine
As a National Geographic photographer, Vince Musi travelled the world to photograph lions, tigers and bears. All that changed when his son turned sixteen - he decided to try something different; to spend some quality time at home and open a hometown studio to photograph dogs. From a farting bulldog to a ...Show more