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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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| PETER FORBES Book Number: 83134 |
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Anybody who has been watching David Attenborough's latest marine extravaganza Blue Planet II will have been privileged to witness the most amazing acts of camouflage, mimicry and trickery on the pl...
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| ROSAMOND RICHARDSON Book Number: 83433 |
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'I came to bird watching late, and immediately loved being away from the noise and business of the world. Waiting for birds became a favourite pastime.' The familiar co-presenter of BBC Two's Disc...
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| PIMPERNEL PRESS & COUNTRY LIFE Book Number: 84425 |
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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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| JOHN BUSBY Book Number: 84813 |
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Living birds present a far more fascinating range of shape and posture, colour and shading. Often their anatomy is hidden by leaves, their plumage colours are changed by light or their feet are ou...
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| GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Book Number: 84864 |
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An award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter uncovers the outrageous inside story of the new energy revolution. A grizzled 83 year old rancher in south Texas owed millions of dollars to various l...
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| FOREWORD BY ALAN LEE Book Number: 84830 |
Published price: £38
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Beautifully summarised by our friend Alan Lee in his foreword, 'Today we have more means of accessing images of wildlife. We can view them in real time or through high-definition photography but se...
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| 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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| JESS KEATING Book Number: 85119 |
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Discover the world's perfectly pink animals like the pink land iguana which lives on a single isolated volcano on one small island in the Galapagos and survives off cactus pads, fallen fruit and sh...
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| ROBIN CHERRY Book Number: 85577 |
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Called everything from rustic cure-all to Russian penicillin, Bronx vanilla and Italian perfume, garlic has been loved, worshipped and despised throughout history. No writer has ever captured the ...
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| EDITED BY JANE RAY Book Number: 85719 |
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The Happy Prince, The Owl and the Pussycat, Noah's Ark, The Golden Swan, Jorinda and Joringel, Heron and Hummingbird, The Jackdaw of Rheims, The Firebird and Magpie Song are among the dozen magical...
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| David Brown Book Number: 85778 |
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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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| GERALD DURRELL Book Number: 85842 |
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By the author of 'My Family and Other Animals', with his unfailing charm, Gerald Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo. He set up ...
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| RICHARD ELLIS Book Number: 85830 |
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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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| HUMPHREY PHELPS Book Number: 86007 |
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First published in a local magazine between 1976 and 1986, these nostalgic and reminiscing articles take us back to hard winters and hard hands in the predominantly livestock district of West Glouc...
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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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| JUDITH MAGEE Book Number: 85545 |
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India has one of the richest natural histories in the world, and the country's artistic heritage reflects its diversity of flora and fauna grouped here by Ethnographical and Topographical, Botanica...
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| LISA DI TOMMASO Book Number: 85546 |
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On 26th January 1788 nearly 1,500 people on 11 sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson after a gruelling eight month journey from England. This collection of vessels later became known as the Fi...
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| EDIT BY ROSAMUND KIDMAN COX Book Number: 85566 |
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These 100 stunning wildlife studies are selected from the annual competition entries by 43,000 photographers from 96 different countries. The introduction by Jim Brandenburg, chair of the judges i...
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| DAVID SCARFE Book Number: 86286 |
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"Let a little wildness in. You won't regret it" urges the author of these 58 outdoor activities guaranteed to "get your feet dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling". Cloudspotting is not t...
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| ROBERT MUIR-WOOD Book Number: 86148 |
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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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| JOHN MILES & BARRY ROBSON Book Number: 86373 |
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One stormy day strong winds blew a flock of sea-going gulls, called Kittiwakes, up the River Tyne to Newcastle. Instead of cliffs there were tall buildings close to the water and plenty of ledges ...
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| JULIAN ROLLINS Book Number: 86397 |
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From the rugged beauty of the Pembrokeshire islands to the awe-inspiring rock-strewn uplands of Snowdonia, Wales is blessed with more than its fair share of natural wonders. The book provides a su...
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| LEO RUICKBIE Book Number: 86325 |
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The crocodile is no less amazing than the dragon. The eagle is no less amazing than the griffin. Man has always looked in wonder at the natural world since the time of Pliny the Elder, born 23CE,...
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| FLORENCE WILLIAMS Book Number: 86400 |
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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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| EDITED BY JONATHAN SILVERTOWN Book Number: 86444 |
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Published by the Natural History Museum and The Open University, drawing on the very latest research, the book explains what biodiversity is and explores its evolution, from 3.5 billion years ago t...
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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 |
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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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