Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine
$24.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Douglas Adams' genius was in using comedy to make serious points about the world - Independent After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to find out what was happening to life on this one. Together they lead us on an un ...Show more
Flights of Fancy: Birds in Myth, Legend and Superstition by Peter Tate
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Category: Animals
Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees and the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle? Throughout history, birds h ...Show more
The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen
$27.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Once regarded as messengers from heaven, presaging longevity and good fortune, cranes appear in the ancient myth and legend of many cultures. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth and air upon which their species - and ours too - depends for survival. ...Show more
BEARDED TIT by Rory McGrath
$27.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin n ...Show more
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon : The emotional world of farm animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Animals
This is a book about farm animals - chickens, cows, sheep and goats - and what they think and feel. As with his previous bestsellers on animal emotions, Jeffrey Masson reveals that these creatures, so often despised or abused, feel complex emotions - among them love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief ...Show more
An Eagle Named Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Jeff Guidry
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Category: Animals
From the moment Jeff Guidry saw the emaciated baby eagle with broken wings, his life was changed. For weeks he and the staff at Sarvey Wildlife Care Center tended to the grievously injured bird. Miraculously, she recovered, and Jeff, a center volunteer, became her devoted caretaker. Though Freedom wou ...Show more
Dictionary of Veterinary Nursing - 3rd Edition - NEW EDITION PUBLISHED 2008 by Denis Richard Lane
$67.00 AUD
Category: Animals
The third edition of this best selling dictionary has been expanded and updated to include new definitions reflecting changes within the veterinary nursing profession, additional illustrations as well as revised appendices. Intended specifically for members of the veterinary nursing profession, all aspe ...Show more
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Animals
In "The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving", Masson considers the far-reaching consequences of the coevolution of dogs and humans, drawing upon recent scientific research. Over the past forty thousand years a collective domestication has occurred that brings us to where we are today - humans have formed inten ...Show more
Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives by Barbara Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The more-or-less domestic feline intrigues us as no other animal can. But what is going on behind those luminous eyes? Barbara Holland reveals a refreshingly candid view of cats: their history, lore, intelligence, and relations with people and each other. This is a lively appreciation of cats as you kno ...Show more
Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable ...Show more
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
$29.95 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a ...Show more