Honey Factory by Jurgen. Tautz; Diedrich Steen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Bee hives might look like seething anarchy at first glance, but bees know exactly what they are doing. The universe of the beehive is an intricately organised, delicately balanced ecosystem. From the mighty queen to the lowliest worker bees, each bee plays its part in the whole.The Honey Factoryplunges ...Show more
The Sporting Horse - In Pursuit of Equine Excellence by SWINNEY, NICOLA JANE
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Exhibiting grace and poise as they master the intricate movements of dressage; galloping like the wind at more than thirty miles per hour; soaring over huge competition fences; running tirelessly across every type of terrain - horses are simply stunning athletes. Naturally fleet of foot, they have stren ...Show more
Venom: The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan James Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taip ...Show more
Pet-Tecture: Design for Pets by Tom Wainwright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Animals
An inspiring, surprising, and fun collection of contemporary design for pets of different shapes, sizes, breeds, and species. The perfect book for design-conscious pet owners and animal lovers alike, Pet-tecture presents an irresistible assortment of hundreds of houses and objects by the world's leadin ...Show more
Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey. However, Australia's abundant native bees are incredibly diverse in their appearance and habits. Some are yellow and black but others have blue stripes, are iridescent green or wasp-like. Some are social ...Show more
The Book of Snakes - A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World by Mark O'Shea
$55.00 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Book Of Ser.
There are over 3,700 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in size from Barbados' tiny threadsnake to Southeast Asia's massive reticulated python. More than any other creature snakes are surrounded by dark, compelling myths and legend, unsurprising since many constrict ...Show more
The Australian Native Bee Book Keeping Stingless Bee Hives for Pets, Pollination and Delectable Sugarbag Honey by Tim Heard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
This book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged wit ...Show more
Birds in the Ancient World by Jeremy Mynott
$61.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Birds pervaded the ancient world, impressing their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people and figuring prominently in literature and art. They provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in myths and folklore and were central to the ancient ritualsof augury an ...Show more
The Eastern Curlew by Harry Saddler
$30.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. The birds cannot swim; if they become exhausted and fall into the ocean, they die. But it’s a journey they have taken for tens of thou ...Show more
Owl by Desmond Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals
From ancient Babylon and the Greek goddess Athena to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat; from Harry Potter's Hedwig and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls are woven into the fabric of human culture. Beautiful, silent, pitiless predators of the ...Show more
Tawny Frogmouth by Gisela Kaplan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The tawny frogmouth is one of Australia's most intriguing and endearing birds. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia's leading authorities on animal behaviour and native birds, this second edition of Tawny Frogmouth presents an easy-to-read account of these unique nocturnal bir ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and ...Show more