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The Earth: natural history: general interest
Brand: Random House
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing." -Outside, "The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade"The biologist and author of Sounds..
20.47£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Shortlisted for the 2021 Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly i..
31.46£
Brand: Thames & Hudson
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and..
15.61£
Brand: The Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493071005Publisher: Lyons PressImprint: The Lyons PressPublished date: 01 May 2023Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 272Weight: -1gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mm..
17.05£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth's climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global ..
35.19£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
Praise for The Green Planet (BBC One)'David Attenborough's gobsmacking, awe-inspiring return' The Guardian'The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans' New ScientistThere's someth..
32.10£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and sc..
33.84£ 34.12£
The Ice at the End of the World An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Brand: Icon Books
Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last physical frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. Locked within that vast 'white desert' are some of our planet's most pr..
15.87£
Brand: Faber & Faber
For all the desert's dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand. One third of the earth's land surface is desert, ..
25.54£
Provides an overview that gives a picture of the nine layers of the earth as they become visible via the research of the spiritual scientist. These layers range from the familiar 'mineral' on which we live, to the innermost core which Steiner connec..
17.31£
Brand: Pegasus Books
Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii-The Last Volcano reveals the incredible journe..
19.32£
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution, and how did it lead to Britain colonising Australia? What protected Popes for centuries? And what does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? The answer to these ..
18.95£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
A beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history, including its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms and more!Introducing The Natural History Book - a complete guide to the nature and wildlife of our world and written by ..
79.58£
Everyone's image of the ideal cricket ground will be a village field, fringed by trees, the outfield dappled with clovers and buttercups, swallows flitting above. And what of all the other wildlife associated with this most natural of sports? At Bus..
23.99£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics-now fully updated and expandedThe New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book that has helped thousands of people to understand the..
38.60£
Brand: Profile
When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible - but though we might admire the view, or wonder idly about the name of a flower, we rarely have ..
21.60£
A collection of inspirational and meaningful quotes perfect for every lover of the great seas from beachcombers to passionate environmentalists.From the great sea shanties of yore to the hidden treasures still being discovered from its depths, the o..
13.64£
The oceans cover 71% of the planet, and pose a myriad of hazards to everyone from blue-water sailors to the casual beachcomber. From rip tides to rogue waves, the possibilities for some water-borne calamity seem endless, but in most cases a deadly o..
24.78£
Brand: Transworld
__________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESThe Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years..
13.97£
Brand: Greystone Books
"The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit."-E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass-and an afterword from Bill McKibben-this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bes..
24.83£
Brand: Random House
In The Songs of Trees, award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. In ..
17.61£
The deepest and largest known springs in the world are found in Florida. This book is a guided tour of these beautiful environments, offering many rare underwater photographs. Beginning with a history of the formation of Florida's springs eons ago a..
19.32£
Brand: Head of Zeus
An exploration of the key aspects of life on Earth - now and in the future - through the study of 10 and a half species. 'Entertaining and intellectually stimulating... The book highlights the wonderfully interconnected nature of our fragile planet...
24.33£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones t..
14.44£