The Birds Around Us by Geoff Moon

$27.50 NZD

Category: NZ Natural History

Wild Flowers in New Zealand by Nancy M Adams

$19.50 NZD

Category: NZ Natural History

New Zealand's Islands by Pamela McGeorge

$32.50 NZD

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.

The Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison

$32.99 NZD

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 e Times When I lived in London I barely noticed the winter solstice. Nothing slowed, contracted or dimmed to mark the shortest day of the year, for, like all cities, London has all but left such trifling considerations behind. But now I am in Suffolk, and the difference could not be more marked. I wake in dim half-light, the yellow windows of nearby farmhouses glimmering across frost-white fields. At three the rooks begin to gather in the leafless trees, and flocks of starlings start to move from place to place. When darkness falls, the nights are blacker than I've ever seen, the starfield so breathtaking that Orion and the Plough are lost amid a million other points of light. The Stubborn Light of Things will transform the way you see the world. A Londoner for over twenty years, moving from flat to Tube to air-conditioned office, Melissa Harrison knew what it was to be insulated from the seasons. Adopting a dog and going on daily walks helped reconnect her with the cycle of the year and the quiet richness of nature all around her: swifts nesting in a nearby church; ivy-leaved toadflax growing out of brick walls; the first blackbird's song; an exhilarating glimpse of a hobby over Tooting Common. Moving from scrappy city verges to ancient, rural Suffolk, where Harrison eventually relocates, this diary - compiled from her beloved Nature Notebook column in The Times - maps her joyful engagement with the natural world and demonstrates how we must first learn to see, and then act to preserve, the beauty we have on our doorsteps - no matter where we live. A perceptive and powerful call-to-arms written in mesmerising prose, The Stubborn Light of Things confirms Harrison as a central voice in British nature writing. ...Show more

Kiwi Hunter by Sid Marsh

$22.50 NZD

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 account of the battle to save New Zealand's most distinctive animal, the kiwi, now threatened with extinction. Sid frankly confronts the issues - trhe counter productive conservation politics, aerial 1080 poison operations, and some of the unsavoury blood'n'guts aspects of trapping and hunting control measures. This book also strives to bring to the public notice today;s conservation heroes and personalities - kiwi field workers, goat/deer hunters, stoat and possum trappers - who work hard to protect the kiwi and its habitat. Finally it presents an unprecedented view from ground level of the cyptic flightless birds themselves. ...Show more

The Country Life Book of Orchids by P. Francis Hunt; Mary Grierson

$75.00 NZD

Category: Botany

Return to Open Country by Edited by Jim Henderson

$22.50 NZD

Category: NZ Natural History

Kew - Rare Plants - Forty of the World's Rarest and Most Endangered Plants by Ed Ikin

$78.00 NZD

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 thoritative text, the book is presented alongside 40 frameable art prints and encased in a collector's box. Some of the most beautiful, useful and fascinating plants in the world are also the most uncommon, and have drawn the fascination of plant hunters, botanists, scientists and gardeners for centuries. This rarity, combined with pressures from humankind's impact on the planet, has brought many of these species to the point of crisis. In a race against time to conserve the world's plant biodiversity, organizations such as Kew are deploying incredible science to save our rare and threatened plants. Cutting-edge genomics reveals new species, distribution modelling directs us to outlying plant populations, while drone and satellite data highlight the speed at which species are declining. This vital information informs which habitats should be protected and prioritizes plant conservation programmes. Rare Plants finds hope among the challenges, and exhibits the role of botanic gardens in conservation across the globe. ...Show more

New Zealand's Alpine Plants Inside and Out by Malcolm, Bill; Malcolm, Nancy

$55.00 NZD

Category: NZ Natural History

Digging Up The Past: New Zealand's Archaeological History by Michael Trotter and Beverley McCulloch

$22.50 NZD

Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good

James Hector Explorer Scientist Leader by Simon Nathan

$32.50 NZD

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.

Charles Fleming: Environmental Patriot: A Biography by Mary McEwen by Mary McEwan

$26.50 NZD

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 conservationist. In a life packed with achievements and honours, Charles Fleming's influence spread far beyond New Zealand.He became highly regarded in the fields of palaeontology, geology, zoology and biogeography and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1967 and later an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1977 Fleming was knighted for services to science and conservation. Perhaps his most important scientific contribution was as a bio-geographer, a field in which he combined his understanding of geology and palaeontology with his knowledge of living organisms.But it was in the conservation movement that Fleming had his largest following. Actively involved in the Save Manapouri Campaign in the early 1970s, he later became a fearless spokesman for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and the Native Forests Action Council in campaigns to save New Zealand's native forests. In this fascinating, readable and timely biography, Charles Fleming's daughter, Mary McEwen, tells the extraordinary story of an extraordinary man.First published November 2005. ...Show more