Astray: A History of Wandering by Eluned Summers-Bremner
$43.00 NZD
Category: Travel
A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human -- it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning -- a force as inti ...Show more
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose-painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance' ADAM NICOLSON A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a bus ...Show more
Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi by Aurora Kane
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world. In Mystical Mushrooms, explore the magical properties, mythological connections, and symbolic qualities of ever-intriguing fun ...Show more
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
A Line In The World by Dorthe Nors; Caroline Waight (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'BEAUTIFUL . . . JUSTIFIES ITS PLACE ALONGSIDE NATURE WRITING CLASSICS SUCH AS H IS FOR HAWK' NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOKS OF 2022'SOUNDINGS GOT UNDER MY SKIN. I FINISHED IT IN TEARS' AMY LIPTROT'STRIKING, BRAVE AND OFTEN LYRICAL' GUARDIAN'WHAT A VOICE! WHAT A BOOK!' CHARLES FOSTER, AUTHOR OF BEING A HUMANF ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain by Raynor Winn
$30.00 NZD
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
Enchantment by Katherine May
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
From the internationally bestselling author of Wintering comes this balm for anxious times and an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time ...Show more
The Trials of Life - A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Reading Level: very good
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
$65.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journ ...Show more