To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Diana Beresford-Kroeger--a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist--has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically something else... Erupting, spreading, decaying, changing.Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from a childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future by Zach St. George
$27.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles-humans felling trees by the billions, invasive ...Show more
Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth by David Attenborough
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts & their Champions by Ashley Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as pearl or rough as a pub brawl, they have defined a continent for thousands of years, and they continue to shape our imagination.First Nations Australians have long known the abilities ...Show more
Geology for Dummies by Alecia M. Spooner
$41.95 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: For Dummies
Get a rock-solid grasp on geology Geology For Dummies is ideal reading for anyonewith an interest in the fundamental concepts of geology, whether they're lifelong learners with a fascination for the subject or college students interested in pursuing geology or earth sciences. Presented in a straightforw ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Tree by Ivan Holliday
$37.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Ivan Holliday's A Field Guide to Australian Trees has been reprinted numerous times and become a classic guide. This 3rd revised edition includes four additional species, and both the text and pictures of many other entries have been updated. This book covers more than 400 species, representing some 80 ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's lading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everythi ...Show more
Wildflowers of Sydney: And Adjoining Areas by Alan Fairley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Field Guide to
The Sydney district is one of the great wildflower regions of the world with over 1500 species occurring within an hours drive of the city centre. This field guide contains 268 of the more common species, or those with striking attributes. Each page is devoted to a single plant -- there is a full-colour ...Show more