Planet Earth: Inspirations and Thoughts from a Planet Warrior (HB) by Bob Brown
$20.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
In his first speech in the Senate, Bob Brown raised the threat posed by climate change. It has taken 10 years for politicians to finally begin to acknowledge the causes and effects of climate change. Since 1996, Bob has continued to take a courageous, and often politically lonely, stand on issues around ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$37.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
$28.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$37.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$25.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon Mc ...Show more
Humane Home - Easy Steps for Sustainable and Green Living by Sarah Lozanova
$55.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Create your own unique sustainable home and life with tools, tips, and inspiration from The Humane Home. Sarah Lozanova shows us how to evaluate all the ways our lifestyle and living choices can be more sustainable, from powering our homes to the food we consume and the air we breathe. Small steps empow ...Show more
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis; Anicka Yi (Illustrator); Dorion Sagan (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own en ...Show more
Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson
$31.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
"A satisfying read from a masterful stylist, this will appeal to any fan of nature writing or personal essays." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook several years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated with corvids, the bird group that includes crow ...Show more
The Memory of Trees: The future of eucalypts and our home among them by Viki Cramer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks, by the coast and in the bush, these are the trees that inhabit our familiar landscapes and national psyche. Yet the resilience of our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land c ...Show more
Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain by Raynor Winn
$25.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
$23.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farme ...Show more
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
$26.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness - larger than most national parks - which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. In The Pine Bar ...Show more