Australian Geographic Wildlife of the Australian Rainforests: A State-by-State Guide by Peter Rowland, Angus McNab, John Harris
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Rainforests in Australia are found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This beautifully illustrated guide explores 51 wildlife watching sites in 22 bioregions around Australia, with over 500 colour photographs and 28 maps. Sites are generally ...Show more
Australian Geographic A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles of Australia: 2/e by Peter Rowland, Chris Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Naturalist's Guide
High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits, and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers the threats to reptiles, types of habitat, anatomy of reptiles, and details of o ...Show more
Orchid by Dan Torre
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Botanical Ser.
A wide-ranging natural and cultural history of orchids. Approximately eight percent of all the Earth's flowering species are orchids. Known for their beautiful flowers, delicate forms, and sweet fragrances, orchids are unlike any other flower. Orchids have been contemplated by philosophers, celebrat ...Show more
Shells - A Natural and Cultural History by Fabio Moretzsohn
$44.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A stunningly illustrated scientific and cultural history of shells. Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a shell. As well as containers for food, shells have been used as tools, jewellery and decorations for dwellings, and to bring good luck or to w ...Show more
Spiders of Australia - Reed Concise Guide by Melissa L Volker W; Thomas Framenau
$16.99 AUD
Category: Nature
This is one of the latest titles in our exciting new series of concise field guides. It is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket guide to Australian spiders. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 200 images of all the species mos ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Fungi by Bruce Fuhrer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Nature
Offers fungi, photographed in their natural environment, with information on fungal biology, ecology, classification, distribution. This book also presents the roles of fungi in nature and spore prints. Descriptions give size range, shape and habitat information as well as spore print colour, spore desc ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia by Kuiter Rudie
$23.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Photographic Guides
A guide for the diver, traveller, fishing enthusiast, or layperson, which aims to provide easy identification of the 222 species of fish covered. Photographs and distribution maps accompany each description, and some show juvenile and adult, or sex variations.
Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide by Ian Fraser
$49.95 AUD
Category: Nature
This book is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading!The authors examine every species: its ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
Silk and Venom: The incredible lives of spiders by James O'Hanlon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are completely harmless to humans.In Silk & Venom, James O’Hanlon takes us from his backyard to all corners of the globe (and even outer space!) to explore these fasc ...Show more
Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland: Third Edition by Steve Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature
'A Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland' covers all of Queensland’s 440 named species, including 135 that occur nowhere else. Colour photographs make for quick identification, aided by line drawings, keys, distribution maps and descriptions. Queensland is home to an extraordinary diversity of reptiles. ...Show more
Unearthing the Underworld A Natural History of Rocks by Ken McNamara
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A geological saga that digs deep, revealing how even the most ordinary rocks can be stepping stones to the hidden history of our planet. Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks--the keepers of secrets of past environments, changing climates, and the pulse of life over billions of yea ...Show more