Search Results for ‘World’, ‘Natural History & Wildlife’, ‘Natural History & Wildlife Photographic/Illustrated Books’ - 18 matches found
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| Author: | David Attenborough |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 137026 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
David Attenborough reveals a secret and amazing universe which is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence...
100 Animals to See Before They Die
| Author: | Nick Garbutt |
| Publisher: | Bradt Travel Guides Ltd. |
| Catalogue number: | 159473 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A must for anyone passionate about wildlife and its conservation.
"100 Animals to See Before They Die" offers a snapshot of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Based on the unique rankings of...
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
| Author: | David Attenborough |
| Publisher: | Royal Collections Publications |
| Catalogue number: | 154513 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This beautifully illustrated book brings together the history and art of the first encounters with exotic plants and animals when explorers set forth on the grand voyages of discovery from the fifteenth...
Birds of the World: The Most Complete Guide to Every Bird in the World Albatrosses to Wrens
| Author: | Les Beletsky |
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Catalogue number: | 155174 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 24 days |
This beautiful book compiles over 1,600 illustrations showing the form, posture and plumage for every single bird family found on the planet, with images for over 1,300 species. The original paintings...
| Publisher: | Phaidon |
| Catalogue number: | 118249 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
A collection of striking images of the underworld, reminiscent of Doubilet's earlier work, Water, Light, Time.
Captivating photographs recording close-up glimpses of the life that exists just beneath...
| Author: | Brent Elliott |
| Publisher: | Scriptum Editions |
| Catalogue number: | 119050 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
For centuries, as Europe explored the New World, botanists sent back seeds and specimens of the thousands of plants they came across on their travels. The resulting experimentation that took place...
| Publisher: | Duncan Baird |
| Catalogue number: | 110804 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
The authors, Claes Grundsten & Peter Hanneberg travelled the world for 10 years to visit 40 of the places designated by UNESCO as World Natural Heritage Sites. The engaging text and over 200 photographs...
| Author: | Alastair Fothergill |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 142994 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
This is a spectacular tour of the Earth’s many habitats produced to accompany the groundbreaking television programme. Whether it’s the claustrophobic darkness of the deep oceans or the big skies of...
Rainforest: A Photographic Journey
| Author: | Thomas Marent |
| Publisher: | Dorling Kindersley |
| Catalogue number: | 146812 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Swiss photographer Thomas Marent spent 16 years travelling over five continents visiting the world’s rainforests, from Peru and Ecuador to New Zealand, Borneo and Papua New Guinea. Usually alone, he...
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Catalogue number: | 157102 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This book accompanies the major BBC1 TV series of the same name - Saving Planet Earth - and brings together the animals and people from the show with the facts and figures of how the human race is changing...
| Author: | Robert Huxley |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 159243 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
From Aristotle to Darwin, this enchanting book reveals how the science of natural history emerged, as seen through the lives, discoveries and glorious illustrations of the world’s greatest naturalists...
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 110507 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Renowned for his pictures of Breton lighthouses, Plisson widens his focus to encompass the subject of the sea as a whole. Dramatic pictures of giant swells alternate with peaceful shots of flat waters...
| Publisher: | National Geographic Society |
| Catalogue number: | 101882 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 3 - 4 weeks |
National Geographic has been in the fron line in reporting on wildlife for more than a century. This book is a selection of 175 images from the NGS archive and through these amazing photographs the...
| Author: | Steve Bloom |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 166384 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
With an international range of locations, “Untamed” contains a breadth of images rare in animal photography; these 200 photographs bring to life a vast panorama of animal diversity and the landscapes...
The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World
| Author: | Michael Benton |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 170332 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Edited by Michael J. Benton and continuing the success of their best-selling ‘Seventy’ series, Thames and Hudson’s Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World is a visually stunning and highly topical...
| Author: | David Attenborough |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 160742 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Life In Cold Blood” is the final chapter in David Attenborough’s overview of life on planet Earth; this is the story of the most successful creatures ever to walk on land.
Reptiles and amphibians ruled...
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Catalogue number: | 164517 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Fragile Earth” collects together striking views of our changing planet and shows the extraordinary effects of man on nature. Each set of carefully selected ‘before and after’ pictures is combined with...
| Author: | Paul Rose |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 168650 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They shape our climate, our culture, our future. Yet we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about Earth's watery depths. What...
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