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Discover the best nature books and top titles about the natural world at our online bookstore, featuring books about nature and life, wildlife books, and nature biographies. Explore must-read and best-selling books, including naturalist books and nature short stories, perfect for every nature enthusiast.
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Adventures of a Nature GuideThis is by far our most popular book, and now it is in our newest edition It appeals to parents, teachers, active outdoors enthusiasts and armchair adventurers. Used as a textbook in two colleges, Enos describes in beautiful detail how he came upon the...
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VellumPoetry. Chelsea Woodard's VELLUM, a finalist for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, propels the reader along new paths of discovery in the quotidian as in the mythical. Its scope is far-ranging: a flower press received as a gift in childhood, Tarot reading with...
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Common Plants of NunavutExplore the fascinating world of Nunavut's varied plant life in this richly visual, informative book. Through beautiful photographs and a broad range of information including traditional knowledge about plant use compiled through interviews with Inuit elders readers will learn about the appearances, adaptations, life...
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Tropical Fish Aquariums Guide for Beginners: All You Need to Know to Set Up and Maintain a Beautiful Tropical Fish Aquarium Today.This book is the complete guide to setting up and maintaining a beautiful tropical fish aquarium. The author put everything he knows about tropical fish and aquariums into simple, understandable language so that you can easily learn all there is to know about this...
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Cluck: A Book of Happiness for Chicken LoversAny chicken owner will know that there's more to these endearing, quirky, clever characters than the eggs and meat they produce.Cluck is a celebration of hens, roosters and chicks, combining high-quality photography with inspirational and amusing quotes to create the perfect gift for chicken...
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Waddle: A Book of Fun for Penguin LoversWaddle is a compendium of delightful quotes and gorgeous photographs that captures the quirky, waddling antics of penguins. The quotes range from silly to educational, from well-known minds like Ellen Degeneres, Douglas Adams, Ernest Shackleton, and more. It seems everything has something to say...
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Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and MemoriesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION This is a beautiful exploration of friendships and landscape and the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia. Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map....
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Rainforest Country: An Intimate Portrait of Australia's Tropical RainforestFilled with photographic innovation and vision, this book journeys to Queensland's tropical rainforest, capturing not only the moods and cycles of this unique area, but also its very essence. Telling the story of flowering plant evolution through camera lenses, the collection demonstrates why few...
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The Freedom of FalconryHow extraordinary is it to gain the trust of a raptor? Even the smallest birds of prey exude power and grace as they take to the air and soar explore the world in a way that we humans can never do.The Freedom of Falconry...
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Spring Comes AgainJorian Jenks was leading member of the British Union of Fascists, a pioneer of radical ecology and organic farming, and a founder of the Soil Association and Editor of its journal "Mother Earth" and is regarded by many as one of the principle architects...
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Land of Tempest: Travels in Patagonia: 1958-1962'We discovered an easy pass to the head of the Ameghino Glacier, and climbed to the summit of a rock peak above it, where for three hours we sat in the warm sun gazing at a magnificent panorama of nameless mountains.'Land of Tempest reveals...
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Know Your SheepFor each breed he dedicates two pages, the left being a full page high-quality picture and the right giving a brief but comprehensive description of the appearance, history and uses of each sheep. Only the size of a postcard, the book fits perfectly into...
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Fraser's Hill & the Highlands of Peninsular MalaysiaA photographic identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen at Fraser's Hill as well as the Cameron and Genting Highlands in Peninsular Malaysia.High quality photographs from the region's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, length,...
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Travels in Alaska: Three Immersions Into Alaskan Wilderness and Culture'To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.'First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is the last book that Muir wrote, detailing the adventures and experiences that were arguably most dear to him. Alaska's picturesque...
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Complicated Animals: Colouring BookDo you love Animals? The Animal Kingdom Colouring book features a series of 25 very detailed drawings of cute Animal faces. Featuring lots of animals, including Antelope, Tiger, Cobra, Wolf, Panda and lots more. A perfect gift for Animal lovers of all ages With...
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A Practical Approach to Animal Welfare Law: 2nd EditionHistorically, animal law has been a piecemeal legislative process of amendments and repeals. The slow progress of the legislation has finally resulted in the introduction of the two main criminal statutes affecting animals in the UK, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Dangerous...
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Flying Snake -Volume OneRichard Muirhead is probably the best researcher that I know. He has, what I am sure Charlie Fort would have called, a 'Wild Talent' in that you can let him loose in any library or archive, and with the innate powers of a truffle-hound...
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In the Footsteps of the Russian SnowmanRussia - or to be exact, the Soviet Union - was the first country to probe the snowman riddle on a scientific basis. In 1958, in the post-Stalinist political thaw, the Soviet Academy of Sciences diverted itself for a time with the exotic and...
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The Menagerie of MarvelsWelcome one and all to my Menagerie of Marvels Where else would you encounter fairy armadillos and go-away birds, roc feathers and a werewolf paw, a park of monsters in Italy and mystery beasts in the Vatican, whale-headed pseudo-pterodactyls and hammer-headed lightning birds, beech...
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Pygmy ElephantsIf ever there was a contender for "giant dwarfs" or "the world's biggest dwarf", pygmy elephants are it. Even a five-foot at the shoulder pygmy elephant would still be a massive beast. I wanted to call this work Slightly Smaller Elephants - Possibly but...
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