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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.
| 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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| 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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| DIANE ACKERMAN Book Number: 81783 |
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"Many of nature's doors have shivered open - human genome, stem cells, other earth-like planets". We humans are redefining our perception of the world around us and the world inside us, asking ques...
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| ROBERT TWIGGER Book Number: 82733 |
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One of the most mysterious and yet popular mountain ranges in the world, the Himalayas are a feature of our planet that are surrounded by facts and legends, from extraordinary geological features t...
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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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| CHRIS MATTISON Book Number: 83884 |
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This series of chunky information books on the natural world (companion Mammals code 83883) are a mine of well-illustrated information and can fit in a large pocket or medium bag. The 240 entries i...
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| ALISON LINTON Book Number: 84421 |
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Mushrooms and fungi in general are neither a plant nor an animal and they are often referred to as the 'Third Kingdom'. This fruiting body releases spores and these are spread by various methods. ...
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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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| MICHAEL SALMON Book Number: 84489 |
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Tragically, changes in land management and the environment have contributed to the seemingly irreversible decline of butterfly species in Britain. It is probable that we shall never again see many...
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| EDWARD O. WILSON Book Number: 84210 |
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Of all the ecological threats facing our planet, the one that has the potential to do the most irreparable damage, according to double Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Wilson, is the loss of bi...
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| PHILIP HATFIELD Book Number: 84597 |
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Written by the Lead Curator of Digital Mapping at the British Library no less, this spectacular, glamorous illustrated large coffee table book invites us to explore the modern world. Following the...
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| JOYCE APPLEBY Book Number: 84676 |
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An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature. When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with...
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| HILARY WRIGHT Book Number: 84686 |
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This excellent and practical guide shows you the rhythms of the moon, sun, stars and planets and how they influence your garden, creating ideal periods in which to sow, weed and harvest plants. In...
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| Unknown Book Number: 84696 |
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Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature and human biology for almost three decades and here she celebrates and explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds. As she travels ar...
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| LUCIANA FRIGERIO Book Number: 84706 |
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Medium level difficulty, 169 folding pages which when completed creates a beautiful stunning red and yellow flower on a green background emerging from the glossy thick pages of this very special bo...
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| BERNIE KRAUSE Book Number: 84719 |
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Sub-titled 'Animal Songs, Human Din, And the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes' a pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many su...
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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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| ANDREW MCLAUCHLIN Book Number: 83599 |
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Physics lecturer McLauchlin a few years ago rekindled his interest in physics or strictly speaking cosmology by a fleeting thought - if time is infinite, anything that can happen must happen. Coul...
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| FOREWORD BY ALAN LEE Book Number: 84830 |
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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 NATALIE BRADLEY Book Number: 85022 |
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More than 200 pages of fascinating facts and colouring, the line art covers the brain, the heart, how we breathe, teeth, digestion, the throat, the stomach, ears, eyes, bones, muscles, hands and fe...
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| EDITED BY NATALIE BRADLEY Book Number: 85023 |
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From the earliest discoveries of dinosaur bones in the mid 19th century, children and adults have always wanted to read about these giant creatures and how they were eventually wiped out. Dinosaur...
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| MATT KAPLAN Book Number: 85044 |
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Matt Kaplan, science journalist for the Economist and contributer to National Geographic, New Scientist, Nature, and New York Times, presents a friendly, armchair guide to the magical world beyond ...
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| JOHN BRANFIELD Book Number: 85300 |
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Painter of animals and birds, coastline and moorland, Charles Simpson was a leading figure in the St. Ives art colony in the early 1920s and was a painter of great energy and variety. He entered t...
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| ILLUS BY SHOBHNA PATEL Book Number: 85283 |
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This Make It By Hand Kids' Craft one-sheet sculpture book will keep you enthralled for hours. In all, 24 creatures can be formed, amongst them parrots, seahorses, decorative fish, tree frogs, cocke...
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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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| DAVID H. KIRBY-WELCH Book Number: 85563 |
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Thomas Bush Hardy's marine watercolours catch the glittering surface of moving water in a way that marks him out from contemporaries in the genre, and his obituary in The Times praised his "unusual...
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