Why We Garden: The Art, Science, Philosophy and Joy of Gardening by Claire Masset
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Explore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art and philosophy. Whether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, find paradise amongst your patio plants or enjoy the simply solace of your hands in the soil, there is beauty, peace and happiness to be found for every gard ...Show more
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly
$22.95 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activ ...Show more
Nature Tales For Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
___From the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night.As the evenings draw in - a time of reckoning, rest and restoration - immerse yourself in this new seasonal anthology. Nature Tal ...Show more
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.In these interwoven ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Penguin Press Science
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the YearWhat is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. ...Show more
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world. Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely dat ...Show more
Trees Of Life by Max Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
An informative, richly illustrated book about eighty of the world's most important and remarkable trees Our planet is home to some three trillion trees--roughly four hundred for every person on Earth. In Trees of Life, Max Adams selects, from sixty thousand extant species, eighty remarkable trees th ...Show more
The Complete Language of Trees: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia Ser.
The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees. The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive and neatly organized dictionary of over 400 types of trees that recognizes each species' name, characteristics ...Show more
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey by Monty Don
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through ...Show more
The Plant-Hunter's Atlas: A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens by Ambra Edwards
$69.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a lavishly illustrated volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age ...Show more
Tree Stories by Stefano Mancuso
$26.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and accessories to murder. From art to politics, science to crime, these are the stories of the trees that have shaped life on Earth. Neurobiologist and phil ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature Writing
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the ...Show more