Complete Guide to Australian Birds by George Adams
$45.00 AUD
Category: Animals
This book is the most up-to-date guide to Australian birds available. Written in everyday language, with crisp, brilliant digital images taken in the wild, this authoritative guide includes- - The first entry and photograph of the previously believed extinct Night Parrot - The recently recognised as a f ...Show more
The Secret Elephants: The Rediscovery of the World's Most Southerly Elephants by Gareth Patterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Animals
The elephants of the Knysna forest have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local forestry department maintained that there was only one surviving Knysna elephant, the s ...Show more
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps: A Penguin Handbook by Claude Goodchild
$19.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Covers the various things that small-scale raisers of rabbits or of poultry, whether for egg-production or for table use, need to know. This book offers advice to keep chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or roaming in a farm yard.
Angel Dogs: When Best Friends Become Heroes by Allen Anderson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Meet Zeke, the newly adopted collie who saved a dying infant; Tequila, a dog whose matchmaking ability sparks a life-long romance; and, Haley, the service dog who gave a teenager the help and hope she needed to survive radiation therapy and Oliver, the shih tzu who warmed the heart of a dying man and ma ...Show more
The Fish of Maui by Peter Gossage
$16.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Maui's jealous brothers don't want him to come fishing with them. Maui is cleverer than they are, however, and not only does he trick them, but he catches the best fish of all.
The Secret Life of Birds: Who They are and What They Do by Colin Tudge
$26.95 AUD
Category: Animals
All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do - and more. By mastering flight, they have a way of living that encompasses the whole world. In "T ...Show more
My Life with George : The Inspirational Story of how a Willful Dog Brought Joy to a Bereaved Family by Judith Summers
$24.95 AUD
Category: Animals
When Judith Summers' husband and father both died within the space of two weeks, she found herself floundering. Life for her and her eight-year-old son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with film-star looks, George reawoke thei ...Show more
COD: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$13.00 AUD
Category: Animals
"A loving eulogy not only to a fish, but to the people whose lives have been shaped by the habits of the fish, and whose way of life is now at an end". -- New York Newsday A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it ...Show more
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
$24.95 AUD
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