Category: NZ Natural History
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
This book is a celebration of our islands with a collection of more than 180 colour pictures and a fascinating text. It is a journey of diverse beauty and a wonderful tale of the people living in many different conditions and circumstances.
Category: Natural World
A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. 'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane 'A nature writer with a knowledge and eye for detail that recalls Thomas Hardy and John McGahern.' Th ...Show more
Category: NZ Natural History
For the past 14 years the author has been at the sharp end of recovery programmes for kiwi, kokako, kakapo, kaka and blue duck. As a result he has spent thousands of hours in the bush observing, capturing and monitoring some of New Zealand's most endangered icons.Kiwi Hunter is an unsanitised firsthand ...Show more
Category: Botany
Category: NZ Natural History
Category: Botany
Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so scarce, telling the story of 40 rare and endangered species through exquisite botanical artworks sourced from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accompanied by illuminating and au ...Show more
Category: NZ Natural History
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
2015 is the 150th anniversary of Hector's appointment as the first government scientist in New Zealand. Generously illustrated with historic images of New Zealand natural history. Describes the founding of several important New Zealand organisations.
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'He serves his country best who loves the land itself.' So wrote Charles Fleming in the winter of 1972, when the battle to save Lake Manapouri had not yet been won and conservationists were girding their loins to fight for native forests. But this remarkable New Zealander was much more than a committed ...Show more