The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
$52.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
Natural Curiosity: The Art of the First Fleet by Louise Anemaat
$39.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Parrots and lorikeets swoop down, vivid, bright and colourful. Black swans glide through the air. Owls stare out from pages, wide-eyed.A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and ...Show more
Marine Plants of Australia by John M. Huismann
$57.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
To most people, the mention of marine plants conjures up images of rotting seaweeds piled high on the beach, or slithering threateningly around bare ankles during a paddle in the shallows. Certainly, the seaweeds do not inspire the imagination or the romanticism that is usually associated with the sea. ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Outback Australia by New Holland Publishers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals | Series: Photographic Guides Ser.
A photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Outback Australia comes in a compact easy-to-use format, making it an ideal pocket-sized travelling companion.Approximately 250 native flowering plants are featured with authoritative text describing key identification features. Also included are line drawings, ful ...Show more
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them - Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live in the Tropics by Marianne Willburn
$37.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
In Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, discover the world of tropical plants through the lens of human relationships. Whether its a "friend with benefits" or a "summer romance", learn how to fall in love with tropical plants.
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants: Fascinating Stories of Our Most-Loved Houseplants by Maddie Bailey, Alice Bailey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The Hidden Histories of House Plants explores the world’s most common house plants, and their journeys to our homes.This book isn’t just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants’ places in social history, art, politics, fashion and culture, showcasing the most fasci ...Show more
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia by Paul van Reyk
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals | Series: Foods and Nations Ser.
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food produ ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
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
Australian Falcons: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation by Stephen Debus
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Falcons are stunning and iconic birds. Australia has six falcon species, with two endemic to the continent and two others endemic to the Australasian region. They are important indicators of the health of our ecosystems, due to their position at the top of the food chain. But several species are declini ...Show more
Wild Food Plants of Australia by Tim Low
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Tim Low has provided a truly reliable guide to our edible flora, making identification easy. Thus it is a perfect companion for bushwalkers, naturalists, scientists and, with emphasis on wild food cuisine, gourmets. Low describes more than 180 plants - from the most tasty and significant plant foods of ...Show more