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
Solar by Ian McEwan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$23.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers
$23.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
A Life in Nature or How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer
$28.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Longlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize 2019A life-affirming book about the British countryside, the cycle of nature, solitude and contentment, through the prism of a brilliant new nature writer's experience working as a traditional mole-catcher, and why he gave it up.I have been catching moles in gard ...Show more
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
The Way Home by Mark Boyle
$26.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$31.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
FUNGAL INSPIRATION: Art and design inspired by wild nature by Victionary
$65.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
When one speaks of the beauty of Mother Nature, lush leaves and bright blooms in the sun often come to mind. However, there is so much charm to be found in her lesser-noticed side, sprouting silently in the places people rarely look at. The fungi family, for example, is full of intriguing species in a v ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
$25.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains wit ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
$30.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more