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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| HANNAH DALE Book Number: 86442 |
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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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| RICHARD SMYTH Book Number: 86459 |
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Sub-titled 'What We Hear When the Birds Sing', birdsong is woven into our culture, our emotions and landscape. It is the soundtrack to our world and in this fascinating account, Smyth asks what it...
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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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| TRISTAN GOOLEY Book Number: 86677 |
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A sixth sense is not mysterious: it is a honed ability to join the dots offered by our subconscious response to outdoor cues. Bark is stripped off trees by deer up to head height, but higher on th...
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| PHIL CLAPHAM & COLIN BAXTER Book Number: 86797 |
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The Whimsical Whale, A Five-Meter Fingerprint, The Wandering Whale, A Summer Banquet In Frigid Seas, Winter Romance in the Tropics and A Merciless Pursuit are some of the chapter headings in this e...
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| ROBERT SHUMAKER Book Number: 86801 |
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Who can ever forget the Clint Eastwood film when he bonded with the huge hairy orange orangutan and we all fell in love with their almost humanlike characteristics? They are one of mankind's close...
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| BILL MCKIBBEN Book Number: 86571 |
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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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| TIM APPLETON & C. GALLIMORE Book Number: 87100 |
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Apart from Woodpeckers, what other family has Ivory-billed, Lineated, Striped and Bar-bellied species? What pigment is responsible for the pink in a flamingo's plumage? Where would you find a Pri...
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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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