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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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| ROBERT MOOR Book Number: 86022 |
Published price: £16.99
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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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| DR CARIN BONDAR Book Number: 87206 |
Published price: $27.95
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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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| DAVID SCARFE Book Number: 88123 |
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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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| 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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| BARNEY SHAW Book Number: 88261 |
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The most emotionally provocative of our senses. It can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph, so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a...
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| MEERA SENTHILINGHAM Book Number: 88378 |
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Sub-titled 'Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus' For centuries we have waged war against infections which could have wiped out communities or even entire populations. Yet, for all our a...
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| MARTIN HUGHES-GAMES Book Number: 88383 |
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Many of us will know Martin as part of the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch team, but before he began presenting he had for over three decades been a cameraman on some of the finest wildlife docum...
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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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| CINEAD MCTERNAN Book Number: 89108 |
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When you next reach for your gin and tonic, think of the botanicals involved. This splendid gallery of photographs and information is all about deliciously productive plants for homemade drinks, r...
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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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| DENNIS PAULSON Book Number: 89988 |
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That sudden dart of blue by the side of the path on a country walk in summer is always such a pleasure, but how many of us know that the order Odonata currently has 6,308 described species, occurri...
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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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| THE GIFTED STATIONERY COMPANY Book Number: 89542 |
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A companion to the Greeting Cards Organiser code 89556, this flexi-bound lined journal has Date / / , dark red edged pages and the most beautiful gold foil decoration on the spine and cover, on the...
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| THE GIFTED STATIONERY COMPANY Book Number: 89556 |
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The padded cover has stunning gold foil decoration on the spine, along the stripes of the tiger, down his nose and across his ears, and on the tips of plants and the edges of the cheetah's spots, o...
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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 |
Published price: £58
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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 |
Published price: £47
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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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| ARCHIE MILES Book Number: 90093 |
Published price: £30
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Fifty lovingly described tree profiles are at the heart of this lavishly produced book, describing ancient giants of our landscape such as the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, which according to folkl...
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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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