Category: Animals | Series: Princeton Pocket Guides
Ideal for the nature-loving traveler, Wildlife of Australia is a handy photographic pocket guide to the most widely seen birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and habitats of Australia. The guide features more than 400 stunning color photographs, and coverage includes 350 birds, 70 mammals, 30 reptiles, ...Show more
Category: Animals
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavio ...Show more
Category: Animals | Reading Level: very good
"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."--Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals ...Show more
Category: Animals | Series: Animal Ser.
Kingfishers are a stunning sight to behold. The dash and verve of these cosmopolitan birds has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia, and cultural iconography, and they were once valued as highly as gold. Artists used their iridescent feathers in Tian-tsui, an iconic ...Show more
Category: Animals | Series: Green Guide Ser.
This text is intended as an introduction to the habitats of the spiders of Australia, and to those Australian groups that are particularly common, interesting or significant to humans. Organized into behavioural categories, the five sections cover ancient spiders, roving spiders, sit-and-wait spiders, s ...Show more
Category: Animals
'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a hare.' The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They are ...Show more
Category: Animals
Stunning photography The book explores reptiles living in a wide range of habitats. Reptiles come in all shapes and sizes, They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tortoises. All regularly shed the outer layer of their skin. Reptiles can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Many ...Show more
Category: Animals
Choose the top dog for your familyFrom spaniels to sheepdogs, The Complete Dog Breed Guidewill help you choose the perfect companion for your family. Fully illustrated and featuring over 400 of the world's best-loved breeds, this is the only breed guide you'll ever need. Q&A selector charts help you ...Show more
Category: Animals
There are few things more fascinating than the diversity of the animal kingdom--and it's a wonder under immense threat. The latest figures estimate that 60 percent of all animal populations on our planet have been wiped out in the last 50 years. Pedro Jarque Krebs, a multi-award-winning wildlife phot ...Show more
Category: Animals
The lives of humans and horses have been intricately linked for thousands of years, with equines depicted in cave paintings dating back to 5000BC. Horses have been developed by humans for many purposes - for war, for working in the field and in industry, for competitive sports events such as the Olympic ...Show more
Category: Animals | Series: Naturalists' Guides
Photographic identification guide to the 280 species of frog most commonly seen in Australia which is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distr ...Show more
Category: Animals
Includes canine behaviour and body language, illness, aggression and anxiety, barking and socialising and toilet training. Canine Communication will improve your relationship with your dog. Included: Canine behaviour and body language Building a relationship with your dog Illness and your dog?s behaviou ...Show more
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