Royal Enfield - A global Motorcycling Success Story by Richard Skelton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Royal Enfield motorcycles have been in continuous production longer than any other make in the world and the marque has a rich and fascinating history. It also has a bright future ahead. Exciting new models are being built in the firm's high-tech factory in Chennai in southern India and sold in ever-inc ...Show more
Wai Pasifika - Indigenous Ways in a Changing Climate by David Young
$65.95 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Science can be as wondrous as the explanations that come out of earth-rooted cultures. Polynesians, like the inhabitants of Oceania generally, have always lived in a state of heightened awareness of the profundity and subtlety of natures moods and interrelationships. Theirs was a holistic view of the wo ...Show more
Why Is That Spider Dancing?: The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa by Dr. Simon Pollard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Most of Aotearoa's amazing arachnids - which include spiders, ticks, mites and pseudoscorpions - are as unique to New Zealand as kiwi and tuatara. Some are so weird and wonderful that they could star in sci fi movies, but despite that we know very little about them. In this companion volume to Why is Th ...Show more
Wildlife of New Zealand by Julian Fitter
$49.95 AUD
Category: General
The essential field guide to the wildlife of New Zealand. New Zealand is home to an amazing and distinctive flora and fauna, most of it found only in this country. This fully revised field guide covers most of the birds, mammals and reptiles that you are likely to see, as well as a good selection of inv ...Show more
Lifetime in Galapagos, A by Tui De Roy
$69.95 AUD
Category: General
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe aboard a banana boat, bound for the Pacific to lead a different sort of life on Galapagos, one of self-sufficiency and living close to nature. She grew up on the islands and returned to them often over the next five decades. Discovering photo ...Show more
Aotearoa Lost Worlds by Dave Gunson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Aotearoa New Zealand has changed dramatically in its size and nature throughout prehistory. It has also seen a great diversity of animals and plants - dinosaurs, great sea reptiles, the largest-ever bird of prey, supergiant penguins, crocodiles, early mammals and giant moa - most of them unique to these ...Show more
Cafe Racer International by Michael Cowton
$23.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
During the 1950s, metal, grease, oil, leathers and attitude bucked tradition and sprouted a revolution in machine masculinity. Owning and riding a café racer was about elemental emotions, where the relationship between man and machine was visceral, born out of intuition and a unique vision that was thou ...Show more
Whiti: Colossal Squid of the Deep by Victoria Cleal
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
A wonderful 32-page illustrated book that dives into the mysterious world of the colossal squid. Through engaging text and glorious images, it tells the story of a colossal squid’s life, from hatching out of a tiny egg to escaping the jaws of a sperm whale and becoming the world’s biggest invertebrate. ...Show more
The World Encyclopedia of Animals by Tom Jackson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Packed full of facts and detailed illustrations, this updated new edition is an expert family reference guide to the animals that inhabit our world. From the smallest mouse to the largest whale, this book offers a detailed and thorough introduction to an array of reptiles, amphibians and mammals, explor ...Show more
The World Encyclopedia of Trees by Tony Russell
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
This beautifully illustrated volume, substantially updated for this new large-format edition, is the ultimate reference guide to more than 1300 of the most spectacular, best-loved and unusual trees across the globe, from the huge redwoods of California to the banyan trees of south-east Asia. A comprehen ...Show more
The World Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers & Flora by Martin Mick & Walters Lavelle
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
This wide-ranging and lavish book, substantially updated for this new large-format edition, presents an expert survey of the incredible floral diversity of the different regions of the world. More than 1730 species are featured, arranged according to region and then by plant family. The key features of ...Show more
Lost Gold - Ornithology of the Subantarctic Auckland Islands by Colin Miskelly (ed.); Craig Symes (ed.)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
This special book-format issue of Birds New Zealands journal Notornis is devoted to the birds of the Auckland Islands Maukahuka/Motu Maha, the largest and biologically most diverse island group in the New Zealand subantarctic region. Its 19 chapters, written by leading ornithologists, cover a wide range ...Show more