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Swainston's Fishes of Australia: The Complete Illustrated Guide by Roger Swainston
$80.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Roger Swainston is one of the foremost marine-life artists in the world, with more than 25 years of artistic and scientific endeavour. His paintings are renowned around the world for their accuracy and vibrancy.After training as a zoologist at the University of Western Australia, Swainston spent several ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A work of bright and careful genius. Equal parts Rebecca Solnit and Annie Dillard, Giggs masterfully combines lush prose with conscientious history and boots-on-the-beach reporting. With Giggs leading us gently by the hand we dive down, and down, and down, into the dark core of the whale, which, she con ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
$40.00 AUD
Category: Animals
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can l ...Show more
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds. As she travels ar ...Show more
The Heart of a Horse: Life Lessons from Horses and Other Animals by Candida Baker
$30.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Learning to 'listen' with all our senses and the magic that happens when we keep an open mind about the idea of communication from the animal world
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond by Simon Garfield
$33.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A charming meditation on the relationship between humans and dogs, drawing upon science, history, art, and personal experience to illuminate a magical bond that has endured millennia--from the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type. "Ludo is now an elderly gentleman, and we would do almost ...Show more
A Brush with Birds: Stories and Art by a Passionate Animal Conservationist (HB) by Richard Weatherly
$60.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A Brush with Birds celebrates the exquisite artworks and incredible life of one of the world's finest bird painters, Richard Weatherly OAM. A skilled falconer and artist, Richard has spent more than fifty years observing birds and their natural habitats around the world, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe to ...Show more
Faces: Profiles of Dogs by Vita Sackville-West
$20.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A collection of photographs of 44 breeds of dogs that capture them in particular & very individual moods. 'How very odd it must be to be a dog...'Over the years Vita Sackville-West had many dogs, including Cocker Spaniel Pippin (famously the mother of Virginia Woolf's Spaniel, Pinka), Alsatian Roll ...Show more
How Birds Behave: Interpreting What They Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
$40.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours — from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, How Birds Behave presents engaging ...Show more
Tropical Marine Wildlife of Australia by Graham Edgar
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
The definitive guide to tropical Australian and central Indo- Pacific marine life, covering over 2,400 species of animals and plants, including many never before photographed or covered in field guides.
Australian Wildlife at Your Doorstep by Stephanie Jackson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A very useful and eye-opening book which will inspire people to step outside their front doors and discover the amazing world of wildlife that is all around us. Packed full of inspiring stories and tips, each chapter enthuses readers about the incredible variety of wildlife experiences and species that ...Show more
Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
$30.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia's unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability. Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and reve ...Show more