Chicken by Moreno Monti & Matteo Tranchellini

$45.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau

$6.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their en tirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal. ...Show more

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago by John Van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker (eds)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolutio n occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, they are filled with lavish descriptions of the remote regions he explored, the peoples, and fascinating details of the many new species of mammals, birds, and insects he discovered during his time there. John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker present new transcriptions of each of the letters, including recently discovered letters that shed light on the voyage and on questions such as Wallace's reluctance to publish on evolution, and why he famously chose to write to Darwin rather than to send his work to a journal directly. A revised account of Wallace's itinerary based on new research by the editors forms part of an introduction that sets the context of the voyage, and the volume includes full notes to all letters. Together the letters form a remarkable and vivid document of one of the most important journeys of the 19th century by a great Victorian naturalist. ...Show more

Grow Fruit and Vegetables in Pots - Planting Advice and Recipes from Great Dixter by Aaron Bertelsen

$30.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good

Expert planting advice for growing fruit and vegetables in pots from the acclaimed English garden - with 50 delicious recipes Beautifully illustrated, Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Potsprovides clear, practical information on growing fruit and vegetables in containers, whether that be a window box or a terracotta pot on a balcony. Aaron Bertelsen of the acclaimed English garden at Great Dixter will guide you through what to grow, which pots to use, give personal tips on varieties to choose, and advice on cultivation and care. Featuring more than 50 delicious recipes, Bertelsen shows that lack of space is no barrier to growing what you want to eat, and proves that harvesting and cooking food you have grown yourself is a total pleasure, with dishes that showcase a few perfectly chosen - and personally grown - ingredients. ...Show more

Mosquito: A Natural History of our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio

$12.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson

$16.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good

A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its c reators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood. Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try. Adam Nicolson has always been a passionate writer about landscape and buildings, but this is different. This is the place he wanted to make good again, reconnecting garden, farm and land. More than just a personal biography of a place, this book is the story of taking an inheritance and steering it in a new direction, just as an entrepreneur might take hold of a company, or just as all of us might want to take our dreams and make them real. ...Show more

Practical Queen Rearing by Frank C. Pellett

$12.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good

Originally published in 1918

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Volume 1 Ratites to Ducks Part A Ratite to petrels and Part B Australian Pelican to Ducks by S. Marchant and P. J. Higgins (co-ordinators)

$350.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine

This encyclopaedic reference book will cover all 900 species (including those recently extinct) occurring in Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, and in the Australian and New Zealand dependencies and subantarctic islands. To be produced in five volumes, it will be the most authoritative and up-to-da te handbook of the birds of Australasia. Volume 1 covers emus to ducks - 196 species of which 162 breed in the region. The text for each bird includes field identification, habitat, distribution, movements, food, voice, social organization and behaviour, breeding, and plumage. There are superb colour illustrations of every species, showing developmental and seasonal changes in the plumage and bare parts. Distribution both within and beyond the range is shown on maps. Line drawings of displays and other postures, diagrams of the annual cycle of each species, and sonagrams of important calls are also included. ...Show more

The Contented Botanist. Letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific by Sophie C. Ducker

$40.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

The Florilegium of Captain Cook's First Voyage to Australia, 1768-1771 by Hank Ebes (Compiled by); Joseph Banks; Sydney Parkinson; Ebes Douwma (Firm) Staff (Contribution by); Editions Alecto Limited Staff (Contribution by); Sotheby's (Firm) Staff (Contribution by); British Museum (Natural History) Staff (Contribution by)

$30.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good

Edward Wilson's Birds of the Antarctic by Brian Roberts (ed.)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

Up the Garden Path: A Little Anthology by Laura Stoddart

$10.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good