Natural history
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The Story of Rice
$22.95 Add to cartRice is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population, but it is often taken for granted and regarded as a common cereal crop. As a rice-eater and a botanist, the author delves deep int… [more below]
- Author: Zhang, Xiaorong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1977253709
- Language: English
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Bats of the West Indies: A Natural History and Field Guide
$39.95 Add to cartBats of the West Indies is a concise guide to the sixty-one bat species found across the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Edited by Allen Kurta and Armando Rodr?uez-Durç–£, this
- Author: Kurta, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 150176893X
- Language: English
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Olympic National Park: A Natural History
$29.95 Read moreRenowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regene
- Author: McNulty, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 029574328X
- Language: English
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Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
$20.00 Add to cartDiscover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants through this beautifully produced, gorgeously illustrated compendium–a captivating coffee table book for enthusiasts of witchcraft books and
- Series: Folk Magic
- Author: Inkwright, Fez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1454956712
- Language: English
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal
“An extraordinarily good book.” –Edward O. Wilson The lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexua- Author: Buchmann, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476755531
- Language: English
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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
$20.00 Add to cartStretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine spe
- Author: McCalman, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535345
- Language: English
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
$26.00 Add to cartIn this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV’s Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seaml… [more below]
- Author: Earnhardt, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 146966934X
- Language: English
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The Durrells of Corfu
$14.95 Add to cartThe Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first plac
- Author: Haag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1781257884
- Language: English
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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creature
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park–like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species–the woolly mammoth. “Paced… [more below]
- Author: Mezrich, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1501135562
- Language: English
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Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element
$29.95 Add to cartMore than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. … [more below]
- Author: Staubach, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1611685036
- Language: English
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The Tree
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fow
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997773
- Language: English
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GigaFlood: The Largest of the Lake Missoula Floods In Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
$24.00 Add to cartThe Ice Age Lake Missoula Floods affected four states and left much evidence of their passing. Most dramatic are the scablands of eastern Washington. With few exceptions all other books on the subject… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0989084027
- Language: English
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Big Bend: A Photographic Journey
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Braden, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1560377925
- Language: English
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In the Beginning
$33.99 Add to cartThis book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky’s main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes bas
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1906833508
- Language: English
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On Time and Water
$26.00 Add to cartA few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind … [more below]
- Author: Magnason, Andri Snær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 194883023X
- Language: English
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Natural Wonders of the World
$50.00 Add to cartDiscover which of Earth’s wonders should definitely make it onto your bucket list with this unparalleled survey of the world’s natural treasures.
Landscape photography combines 3D terrain models and o- Series: DK Wonders of the World
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465464174
- Language: English
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Nature Handbook: Explore the Wonders of the Natural World
$24.99 Read moreA practical illustrated guide to exploring, observing, and understanding nature
Chris Packham will pass on his passion for nature and make you an enthusiastic and knowledgeable amateur naturalist Chri- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0744052114
- Language: English
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Planet Earth III
$55.99 Read moreThe iconic series that started it all returns: accompanying an 8-part program narrated by David Attenborough, Planet Earth IIItakes you closer than ever to the world’s most fascinating animals and lan… [more below]
- Author: Gunton, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 178594827X
- Language: English
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting. … Pattison’s uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. … In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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- Author: Pattison, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0062410296
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Though the Twin Cities and environs have proven a fine habitat for one p- Author: Moriarty, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905494
- Language: English
