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A Book of Heroes: or a Sporting Half-century by Simon Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Hobbies
Everyone's lives will, at some time, have been touched by a moment of sporting heroism. Whether it was Ellen MacArthur's triumphant finish off the French coast in 2005, or Bobby Charlton's long-range goal that transformed England's fortunes against Mexico in 1966, we have all witnessed heroic acts - or ...Show more
Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: And Introduction to Bird Song by Simon Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Learning birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of the planet earth...Why do birds sing? What are they trying to say? Birdsong is not just about natural history. It is also about our history. We got melody from the birds as we got r ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our ho ...Show more
How to Be a Bad BirdwatcherTo the Greater Glory of Life by Simon Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis refreshingly irreverent introduction to the subject, Simon Barnes makes birdwatching simple--and above all, enjoyable. Anyone who has ever looked up at the sky or gazed out the window knows a thing or two a ...Show more
How to be Wild : We are all wild, it's just that civilisation keeps getting in the way by Simon Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
We are all wild. It's just that civilisation keeps getting in the way. And the more civilised we become, the more we need the wild: wild places, wild creatures, and wild experiences. As every one who has patted a dog, smelled a rose, taken a walk, or even had a drink in the garden well knows, humans hav ...Show more
My Natural History: The Animal Kingdom and How it Shaped Me by Simon Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The animal kingdom came to my rescue. It always has done. I suspect it always will. It rescued me at Sunnyhill Primary School, it rescued me in my adolescence, it has rescued me over and over again throughout my adult life.A" In My Natural History Simon Barnes, like a modern-day Gerald Durrell, weaves ...Show more
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes
$21.99 AUD
Category: Science
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining.And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatu ...Show more
The Green Planet (HB) by Simon Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Flora
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes. There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magic ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
An exquisite edition of The History of the World in 100 Animals by author and journalist Simon Barnes, adapted and abridged for younger readers, with superb illustrations by award-winning artist, Frann Preston-Gannon. This outstanding gift book proposes the 100 animals who have had the greatest impact o ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Animals & Nature
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
The Horsey Life by Simon Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
All I can say is that there was something - right from the first. A stubby little mare, bright bay with remarkably large ears. A white star on her forehead shaped like Madagascar, and a huge arse...' This is the story of an extraordinary relationship - and an extraordinary horse. When Barnes buys Dolly ...Show more