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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.
| JULES HOWARD Book Number: 81577 |
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Sex marks the spot in this playful and at times hilarious book on the creation of new life. Celebrating the wonders and peculiarities of animal reproduction, Jules Howard has interviewed scientist...
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| CHARLES MOSELEY Book Number: 82748 |
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Ernest Shackleton once said "I burn with a strange passion for the South" - the author feels the same about the North. A laudably busy chap, he is a lecturer in English at Cambridge, Fellow of the...
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| PIMPERNEL PRESS & COUNTRY LIFE Book Number: 84425 |
Published price: £12.99
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Born with a silver spoon in their mouths, these shaggy doggies much prefer tales of leaping over country fences, accompanying their masters, hunting in packs of hounds, alongside horses, and lookin...
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| EDITED BY JOHN LANTOS Book Number: 85116 |
Published price: £28
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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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| David Brown Book Number: 85778 |
Published price: £8.99
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Meet a socially lively, boisterous, highly intelligent, sexually uninhibited animal with an apparent keen and wicked sense of humour, guaranteed to reduce human stress. Pigs are also exasperating,...
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| RICHARD ELLIS Book Number: 85830 |
Published price: £19
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A big, visually exciting celebration. "The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and liter...
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| ROBERT MOOR Book Number: 86022 |
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While hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2009, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet. How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others devolve? What make...
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| ROBERT MUIR-WOOD Book Number: 86148 |
Published price: $29.95
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Year after year, natural disasters wreck homes, livelihoods and lives, be they floods, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis or, as is becoming more commonplace, sinkholes. But since they ar...
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| JOHN HEMMING Book Number: 86165 |
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In 1848 two enterprising young men from the Leicester area, Alfred Wallace and Henry Bates, set sail for the Amazon to study its natural history. Enthused by attending classes at the Mechanics' In...
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| FLORENCE WILLIAMS Book Number: 86400 |
Published price: £11.99
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Bared, flaunted, measured, inflated, sexted, YouTubed, suckled, pierced, sucked, tattooed, tasselled and fetishized, it is remarkable how little we actually know about the basic biology of the brea...
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| THOMAS MARENT & F. JANTSCHKE Book Number: 86450 |
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'Only if we help shall they be saved' wrote Jane Goodall, the young research scientist who was the first human to make contact with David Greybeard, the first chimpanzee to get close in a scientifi...
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| PETER WAINE & OLIVER HILLIAM Book Number: 86426 |
Published price: £25
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The Green Belt is an idea less than 100 years old, here described by Ray Mears; Landscaping and Tourism is explored by Melvyn Bragg; National Parks, the Country Code introduced by Caroline Quentin,...
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| HANNAH DALE Book Number: 86442 |
Published price: £11.99
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Fluffy owl chicks, bedraggled blue tits, playful kittens, knock-kneed calves, guinea pigs, a beagle puppy, vocal blackbird chicks, a bottlenose dolphin, a baby alpaca, a Gloucestershire Old Spot pi...
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| BBC EARTH Book Number: 86645 |
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Your chance to own the 'Television Classic' (The Times), the 1999 BBC TV series which changed the way we saw dinosaurs forever. This revolutionary show takes viewers right into the dinosaurs' worl...
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| BILL MCKIBBEN Book Number: 86571 |
Published price: £16
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First published in 1989 and here with a new introduction by the author (2006), here is the ground-breaking plea for radical and life-renewing change. Mckibben argues that our view of nature, its r...
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| JAMES SALZMAN Book Number: 86876 |
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There is no life without water, but drinking water can kill, and always has. The problem is that, apart from distilled water, no water source can ever be completely risk free, whether from the tap...
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| DAVID ZINDELL Book Number: 87106 |
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"By the time we reached the open ocean, the water tasted almost as it should: of seaweed and sacred salt, of starlight and storms..." "Early in the Moon of Owls, I watched Helen pace the deck of t...
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| NIGEL MARSH Book Number: 87060 |
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Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful! Striped and brightly coloured like Nemo, graceful and magnetic like Manta Rays, mucus suckers like the Convict Blenny burrowing in sand or coral, a preh...
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| JONATHAN FRANZEN Book Number: 87062 |
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"I was indulging a different sort of compulsion in Ghana. To my shame, I am what people in the world of birding call a lister... I go birding to experience their beauty and diversity, learn more ab...
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| CHARLES FOSTER Book Number: 86989 |
Published price: $28
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A passionate naturalist explores what it is really like to be an animal by living among them. To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster tried to be li...
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| ISOBEL CHARMAN Book Number: 87009 |
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Sub-titled 'The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo 1826-1851'. Georgian London in the Age of Empire, domestic reform and industrialisation, this is a history of a new world and ...
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| DR JOHN FELTWELL Book Number: 87314 |
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Why is it that so many animals display a black and white coloration, and why do they do so? Zoologist and naturalist Dr John Feltwell explores the nature of black and white in mammals, birds, rept...
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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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| JOHN MILES & BARRY ROBSON Book Number: 87389 |
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A companion to Gowk the Cuckoo (code 87390) in the same collectable art series by Langford Press we meet Fred the Chaffinch, born in a hawthorn bush in a nest built by his mother, with five eggs sh...
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| ILLUS. BY CHRISTINE BERRIE Book Number: 87362 |
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50 colour stickers including the chaffinch, owl, eagle, woodpecker, starling, parrot and cockatiel, the red-whiskered bulbul, the laughing kookaburra, the great spotted woodpecker to the housemarti...
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| ABIGAIL WILLIS Book Number: 87372 |
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A qualified RHS gardener and newspaper journalist guides us down the path of gardening history taking in both the innovations from secateurs to the lawnmower as well as trends from Roman topiary to...
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| JONATHAN LOSOS Book Number: 87485 |
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Breakthroughs in evolutionary biology have brought insight into natural selection and evolutionary change which have far-reaching applications for protecting ecosystems, securing our food supply, a...
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| HELEN SCALES Book Number: 87885 |
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With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, here are the Christmas Lectures from The Royal Institution in handsome small hardback with decorative gold tooling. Perennially popular, each year for ne...
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| ANDREW ROBINSON Book Number: 87905 |
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The Cambridge University scholar has written more than 25 books on the arts and sciences and here he puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective. Since antiquity and on every conti...
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