The Cat Encyclopedia: The definitive Visual Guide by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A stunning celebration of all things feline, from domestication and anatomy to practical advice on breeds and cat care Are you a feline fanatic? Could you tell the difference between a Housecat and an Ojos Azules? Do you want to know how to keep your kitty happy and healthy? The Cat Encyclopedia is a co ...Show more
Flight Lines: Across the Globe on a Journey with the Astonishing Ultramarathon Birds by Andrew Darby
$37.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Reading Level: near fine
Andrew Darby follows the extraordinary migratory shorebirds from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back. On these travels he explores the power of science to reveal the mysteries of these birds, and to heal both their endangered world - and unexpectedly - himself. As the sun lowered and turne ...Show more
Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Nature Is More Cooperative Than We Think by Kristin Ohlson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Reading Level: near fine
A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness areas, farmlands, waters, and even our cities.In Sweet in Tooth and Claw, Kristin Ohlson explores the subtle ...Show more
Horses by Nicola Jane Swinney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The lives of humans and horses have been intricately linked for thousands of years, with equines depicted in cave paintings dating back to 5000BC. Horses have been developed by humans for many purposes - for war, for working in the field and in industry, for competitive sports events such as the Olympic ...Show more
Eastern Curlew PB by Harry Saddler
$21.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. The birds cannot swim; if they become exhausted and fall into the ocean, they die. But it’s a journey they have taken for tens of thou ...Show more
The Last Elephants by Colin Bell; Don Pinnock
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species ...Show more
Field Companion to Mammals of Australia by Van Dyck Steve ; Gynther Ian ; Baker And
$59.99 AUD
Category: Animals
This invaluable companion to The Mammals of Australia is intended to be taken out into the field and used in conjunction with the more comprehensive volume. Genuinely practical in the outdoors, the book includes accounts of 389 species and newly developed, comprehensive identification keys. The Field Co ...Show more
Wild Horses of the World by Kelly Wilson
$52.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Wild horses have been an important part of wildlife on Earth for centuries, yet many herds now face serious threats - and very few people can claim to have seen them galloping free across the plains, or scaling mountain passes. Kelly Wilson has. For this book, she spent years researching the world's wil ...Show more
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working ...Show more
Amazing Aussie Dogs by Laura Greaves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Some say Australia was built on the sheep's back, but it is just as true to say our great nation was built in the dog kennel.Australians love their dogs - we collectively own more than four million pet pooches - and they love us right back. In fact, Aussie dogs' loyalty to their owners knows no bounds. ...Show more
Man and Beast by Andrew Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Cavemen tamed fire then they tamed animals, wild ancestors of the domestic breeds that have been with us ever since. From the city beggar sharing a blanket with a bull terrier to oil-sheiks breeding Arabian horses, humans are suckers for animals. Writers are not immune. Les Carlyon has written of horses ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more