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The Heart of a Horse: Life Lessons from Horses and Other Animals by Candida Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Learning to 'listen' with all our senses and the magic that happens when we keep an open mind about the idea of communication from the animal world
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
The Gospel of the Eels by Patrik Svensson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little ...Show more
Extraordinary Old Dogs: Uplifting True Tales of Remarkable Seniors by Laura Greaves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Puppies are wonderful, but there is something truly special about an old dog. It's the grey muzzle and salt-and-pepper eyebrows; the face that says 'been there, sniffed that.' It's the plodding gait; the long naps in the sunshine; the undiminished wonderment at the beauty of the world. And more than any ...Show more
A Brush with Birds: Stories and Art by a Passionate Animal Conservationist (HB) by Richard Weatherly
$60.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A Brush with Birds celebrates the exquisite artworks and incredible life of one of the world's finest bird painters, Richard Weatherly OAM. A skilled falconer and artist, Richard has spent more than fifty years observing birds and their natural habitats around the world, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe to ...Show more
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant by Levison Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
This book comes at a critical time. Fifty years ago, Africa was home to just over 1.3 million elephants, but by 1990 the number had halved. Meanwhile in the span of a lifetime, the human population has more than doubled. In Levison Wood's The Last Giants, he explores the rapid decline of one of the wor ...Show more
Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz; Kathryn Bowers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers- behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the shouting and screaming, the fast living, and the strutting and preening lie the rules of ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Animals
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our h ...Show more
What Cats Want: An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Cat by Yuki Hattori
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals
From the top feline doctor in Japan comes a fun, practical, adorably illustrated "cat-to-human" translation guide to decoding your cat's feelings. When your cat's tail is upright, she's saying hello. If it's quivering? She's happy to see you. But if it swishes ominously from side to side across your li ...Show more
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond by Simon Garfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
A charming meditation on the relationship between humans and dogs, drawing upon science, history, art, and personal experience to illuminate a magical bond that has endured millennia--from the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type. "Ludo is now an elderly gentleman, and we would do almost ...Show more
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs by Peter J. Conradi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Tin Tin's Snowy, Odysseus's Argos, Darwin's Polly, Mary Queen of Scots's 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Flush... Behind every great man or woman is a dog. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogsis a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs. Embracing the ...Show more
Best in Show by Dolly Faibyshev (By (photographer))
$49.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Best in Show is a collection of photographs of well-groomed and award-winning dogs by New York City-based photographer Dolly Faibyshev. The images from the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and beyond focus on the unique--and often humorous--relationship between each dog and their handler. Dolly ...Show more