The Gathering Place - A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Deeply poetic.' CAROLINE LUCAS MP 'A masterpiece of storytelling.' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH 'Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity.' PATRICK LAURIE 'An unforgettable story.' MICHAEL MCCARTHY 'Inspiring.' JEREMY MYNOTT 'Brave, tough and surprisingly funny.' ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE- Mary Colwell mak ...Show more
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our everyday lives. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walkin ...Show more
How to Wild Swim: What to Know Before Taking the Plunge
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Practical advice and instruction to get the very best out of wild swimmingThe manual every amateur wild swimmer needs to read before diving in.Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-dist ...Show more
Entangled Life Illustrated: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'. Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'. Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventur ...Show more
Where My Feet Fall Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out ...Show more
Endless Forms - Why We Should Love Wasps by Seirian Sumner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insec ...Show more
Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
$70.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home by Amanda Thomson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022Reflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the ...Show more
Astray: A History of Wandering by Eluned Summers-Bremner
$43.00 NZD
Category: Travel
A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human -- it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning -- a force as inti ...Show more
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose-painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance' ADAM NICOLSON A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a bus ...Show more
Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi by Aurora Kane
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world. In Mystical Mushrooms, explore the magical properties, mythological connections, and symbolic qualities of ever-intriguing fun ...Show more
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents