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Nature/Countryside
Nature/Countryside
Nature and the countryside, animals and minerals, gemstones and rocks to birds and beekeeping, Alfred Wainwright and walking to conservation.
| EDITED BY JOHN LANTOS Book Number: 85116 |
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Sub-titled 'Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses', the book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the ...
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| DR CARIN BONDAR Book Number: 87206 |
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Birds do it, bees do it, in fact every member of the animal kingdom does it from fruit flies to blue whales. Try having to do it being hunted down by predators, or in unpredictable and life-threat...
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| PHILIP HOARE Book Number: 87422 |
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Idiosyncratic tales of mariners, adventurers and the odd dilettante, here is an exquisite read, stuffed with dark myths and eerie legends, written with poetic descriptions. It is a watery book by ...
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| BRUCE MONTAGUE Book Number: 87867 |
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Sub-titled 'An A -Z Guide to the Sexual Predilections of Animals from Aardvarks to Zebras', here is an amusing book on the courtship and mating habits of animals, including Homo sapiens sapiens. T...
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| SARA EVANS Book Number: 88018 |
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A hundred years ago there were 200,000 wild lions living in Africa. Today their numbers have dropped by 90%, and humans are responsible for their decline. Sara Evans meets lion champions in Kenya...
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| LIZ TEMPERLEY Book Number: 88223 |
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The southern Rockhopper penguin who travels hundreds of miles when it's time to mate, pairs are drawn together by the mystery of love. The Malagasy giant rat finds home sweet home in an undergroun...
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| ANUP SHAH & FIONA ROGERS Book Number: 88632 |
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Ever since Jane Goodall first made their acquaintance in 1960, the intimate world of chimpanzees has never been caught so lovingly as in this stunningly illustrated book. The intensity of the imag...
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| T. E. SALTER Book Number: 89267 |
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'Abridged for the use of young anglers', the Angler's Guide was first published in 1816, and advertised as being a complete practical treatise on Angling. It is 'the art of trolling and fishing fo...
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| SUE BELFRAGE Book Number: 89413 |
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Earth, sky, water, wood, feather and fur: the world of wild nature is on your doorstep, waiting for you to enjoy it, respect it, and feel part of it. Go out and feel the air on your face, see the i...
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| DANE HUCKELBRIDGE Book Number: 89067 |
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Bengal tigers are not by nature man-eaters, but in the early years of the 20th century the infamous Champawat tiger held the local population in the grip of terror until she was finally killed by t...
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| NICK PYENSON Book Number: 89403 |
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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, widest ranging and deepest diving species to have ever lived. We have hunted them for thousands of years, some species almost to extinction, and they...
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| RAINTREE Book Number: 89476 |
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Pembrokeshire has more Blue Flag beaches such as Dale, Poppit Sands and Newgale Sands per mile than anywhere else in the UK. From there you can see seabirds, grey seals, dolphins and even orcas an...
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| BETH LYNCH Book Number: 89981 |
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Horticulture and human feelings twine together here and what flourishes in the several gardens of this book is in the end hope. Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of findi...
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| KERI DAVIES Book Number: 89784 |
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'What's for tea, Clarrie love?' From the fabled kitchens of Ambridge come the recipes and gossip that fuel the nation's favourite village from BBC Radio 4. Whether it's Susan's spicy chilli con c...
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| JAMES HERRIOT Book Number: 90028 |
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A few months of married bliss, a lover's nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. RAF training proves tough for James, but...
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| CHARLES DARWIN Book Number: 25257 |
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Darwin's writings as an independent naturalist on the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 capture the natural world's beauty in his own sublime language. In a travel journal which takes us from the co...
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| MICHAEL SYMES Book Number: 89222 |
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In the 18th century, the English Landscape Garden spread through France, Germany, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary, Italy and to other countries. The term was used to denote lay...
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| ELIZABETH YALE Book Number: 89781 |
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In early modern Britain, the study of natural history and antiquities was founded on writing. Writing was naturalists' primary means for creating, assembling and sharing knowledge. Working with t...
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| SIMONA STOPPA Book Number: 90092 |
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From award-winning ultra-modern architecture to the multi-coloured baroque splendour of Ouro Preto, a UNESCO world heritage site preserved just as it was when founded in 1711, from the amazing nigh...
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| JANE GOODALL Book Number: 90097 |
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Acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall introduces her favourite young chimps from the Gombe National Park where she has studied the behaviour of these fascinating animals for more than 50 years. She...
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| GEORGIUS EVERHARDUS RUMPHIUS Book Number: 90179 |
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Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesia Botanical Exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the 17th century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a western language and within...
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| STEPHANIE BRUNEAU Book Number: 90320 |
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All hail the bee and the honey it creates! How and why does it make honey? What is royal jelly? Will eating bee pollen really help seasonal allergies? All of these questions and more will be answer...
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| EDWARD PLATT Book Number: 90431 |
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As read on BBC Radio 4, this book is a collection of travel writing and reportage from Edward Platt who, during the course of two years - coinciding with the dramatic floods of Winter 2013 to 2014 ...
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| DOUGLAS PALMER Book Number: 90516 |
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FOSSILS: Discover the World of Fossils
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| ADRIAN JONES Book Number: 90518 |
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220 of the commoner rocks and minerals of Europe are listed in this pocket guide, with each example being photographed in colour in its ideal form, often from a specimen in a museum. Additional ai...
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| HELGA HOFFMAN Book Number: 90526 |
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Over 200 species are divided into six colour coded mammal groups for ease of reference, each one illustrated with at least one colour photo and also drawings showing extra features. Almost all nati...
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| WILLIAM MCKEEVER Book Number: 90530 |
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Sub-titled 'The Mysterious and Misunderstood World of the Shark', this is the first book to reveal the hidden world of sharks drawing upon the latest scientific research to examine four species in ...
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| PETER GODFREY-SMITH Book Number: 90539 |
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The nature of Consciousness is a much-disputed subject among scientists and in this unusual take on the issue a scuba-diving professor of science approaches the subject through his and other people...
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| DAVID BAINBRIDGE Book Number: 90563 |
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Dissected and depicted to horrify, educate and enthral, the animal body has been picked apart in this extraordinary handbook of ancient sketches from Da Vinci and Dürer, George Stubbs and the horse...
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| MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST Book Number: 90628 |
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Probably designed for children aged nine and up, all ages will appreciate the striking graphic stamps from printmaker Tom Frost in his beautiful and illuminating journey through the world of endang...
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