Wildlife: general interest

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  • Life on Earth

    £14.99

    A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.

  • The Trials of Life

    £14.99

    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.

  • Natural World

    £9.99

    See how nature is connected with Curiositree: Natural World, a collection of 50 information charts designed to help you see the natural world in a whole new way.

  • Naming Nature

    £18.99

    From butterflies and hummingbirds to narwhal and leopards, this work celebrates our wondrous natural world by exploring the language we use to describe it. Take elephants, for instance. African languages often focus on the power of the animal; Tswana and Tsonga refer to ‘the unstoppable one’ and Zulu ‘one crashing through’. In ancient European languages however, elephants were seen as commodities. When Homer and Hesiod wrote about ‘elephas’ in the seventh century BCE, they simply used the word for ivory. Bestselling author T.A. Barron brings together his love of the natural world and his joy in language, creating an inspiring – and often surprising – collection.

  • The Golden Mole

    £20.00

    The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. A pangolin’s tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get to the moon and back – then back to the moon. There’s a fable that storks deliver babies. In fact, the Nazis used them to air-drop propaganda. An illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of the world’s most endangered animals, this sumptuous, expanded and updated edition of ‘The Golden Mole’ is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck – to fall for the likes of the wondrous pygmy hippo, the seahorse, the narwhal and, as astonishing and endangered as them all, the human.

  • Poems on nature

    £10.99

    A delightful collection of nature poems introduced by author Helen Macdonald.