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Natural History
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Still waters & wild waves
Featuring over 50 original illustrations of dramatic seascapes and reflective rivers, alongside photography of the stunning places that inspired the artwork, Angela Harding's book captures the waters that move us.
£25.00
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The forager's almanac
Get in tune with the rhythms of nature with this month-by-month guide to foraging. Learn how to identify wild plants correctly, harvest them at their prime, and use them in delicious recipes and relaxing wildcrafting projects. Each plant is accompanied by photography to help with accurate identification. Gathering wild food summons us to become active participants in our environment, fostering a profound sense of connection to the natural world around us. At the heart of foraging lies an intricate understanding of the changing seasons, the landscape, and the delicate ecosystems that thrive within. Danielle Gallacher has been foraging for over 20 years, and in 'The Forager's Almanac' she shares her expertise on how to safely and sustainably harvest our countryside's edible bounties, and how to use them in your cooking - such as pickles, preserves, ciders and lemonades.
£16.99
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Raising hare
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me. When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival. 'Raising Hare' chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild.
£18.99
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Close encounters of the fungal kind
'A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passion' TRISTAN GOOLEY
£25.00
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The interpretation of cats
Is your cat happy? What can you do to help? And what can cats teach us? The relationship between humans and cats has never been simple. Cats are mysterious and contradictory, independent and affectionate, predator and prey. Their true nature continues to elude us, and their subtle and complex behavioural problems can often seem unsolvable or incomprehensible. In this ground-breaking book - a huge bestseller in its native France - veterinary doctor and psychiatrist Claude Béata draws on cutting-edge research and decades of experience with cats, to revolutionize our understanding of pets and transform our appreciation of feline mental wellbeing.
£20.00
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The lie of the land
*A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS*'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'It couldn't be more relevant' JAMES O'BRIEN'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES
£22.00
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The hidden language of cats
Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world. But how did those wildcats of old creep into our homes and our hearts, convincing us to keep them warm, fed, and pampered? Quite simply, they learned to talk to us. Renowned cat behaviour scientist Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront of research in the field, discovering how cats use tail signals to interact with each other and their owners. Now she reveals the previously unexplored secrets of cat communication in a book that is both scientifically grounded and utterly delightful. Each chapter dives into a different form of communication, including vocalisation, tail signals, scents, rubbing, and ear movements.
£10.99
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Saints
Saints' legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes' suffering and wonder-working shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws. In this book, Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints. She draws on 'official' lives, vernacular romances, artworks and obscene poetry, all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The legends' heroes originate from as far east as Turkey and North Africa and as far west as Britain and Ireland. Saints includes such enduring super saints as Brigid, George, Patrick and Michael, as well as some whose legends are less well known (Scoithín, Euphrosyne and Ia) or else couched in prejudice (William of Norwich).
£30.00
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Overleaf
Leaves live a thankless life. They go unnoticed while providing shade and cleaning the air, and are often the subject of our groans and grumbles in the autumn while being raked away. Outside of brief odes to colorful autumn foliage, their quiet, everyday beauty is usually unsung. 'Overleaf' is an extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree.
£25.00
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Nature's calendar
Inspired by a traditional Japanese calendar which divides the year into segments of four to five days, this book guides you through a year of 72 seasons as they manifest in the British Isles. From 'Snowdrops emerge' in the first days of January to 'Tree skeletons and sky' at the close of the year, each fleeting season is epitomized by some natural phenomenon, be it a plant coming into bud, a burst of birdsong, or a cobweb spangled by dew.
£14.99
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A mudlarking year
For over two decades, Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the tidal Thames looking for objects - lost or discarded - that tell forgotten stories. In this sequel to 'Mudlarking', Lara reflects on life lived post-pandemic, widens her search beyond the river and reminds us that it's possible to draw meaning in the most unlikely of places. As she slowly searches the foreshore through the changing seasons, she is at times aided by the gentle illumination of the falling winter sun or hindered by bright summer skies and lashing rain. Yet, by working in harmony with the unpredictable terrain, she finds solace in aligning with the elements and uncovering the treasures that are bestowed by the tide. From medieval pilgrim badges, Tudor love tokens and Victorian pottery, each passing day unearths ordinary and extraordinary objects that tell the rich story of London's past and its inhabitants.
£22.00
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The perfect puppy
Now updated with the latest findings in canine behaviour, Gwen Bailey's book shows you how to bring up your puppy to be a happy, well-behaved and friendly adult dog. Included are step-by-step training and socialization plans as well as a guide to understanding and preventing biting, chewing and other problems.
£16.99
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The almanac
For each of the 12 months, award-winning gardener and food writer Lia Leendertz shares her practical guidance for expeditions, meteor-spotting nights and beach holidays, as well as stories about each month's unique nature and folklore, and charts relevant to each month.
£12.99
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The underworld
For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of fear and fascination, an unknowable realm that evokes a singular, compelling question: what's down there? But now cutting-edge technologies are allowing scientists and explorers to discover this strange and exotic underworld: a place of soaring mountains, smouldering volcanoes and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high. A realm long thought to be devoid of life is, in fact, a vibrant new world, home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long, creatures that breathe iron and communicate through their skin, ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium. In 'The Underworld', Susan Casey traverses the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet.
£10.99
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Footprints in the woods
'Footprints in the Woods' is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels, and pine martens. This family - Mustelidae - all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre that has been John's home for more that 45 years.
£10.99
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How to be a bad botanist
From the author of Rewild Yourself and How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher, a light-hearted guide to realising you know more about plants than you might think.
£16.99
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Lonely Planet the joy of birdwatching
Find 60 joyous birding travel experiences from all over the world plus a further 120 ideas on bird-rich encounters. This unique guide is packed with expert insights, 'don't miss' activities, and trip planning tips so you can meet some of the most remarkable birds on our planet and discover the unbridled joy in watching them go about their day.
£22.99
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Tree-spotting
Botanist and ecologist Ros Bennett has spent a lifetime helping people understand and identify plants, all the while nurturing her daughter Nell's love for them too, helping Nell to discover the visual and tactile beauty of trees through leaves, bark patterns and key features. Combining their backgrounds and talents - through Ros's extensive experience and Nell's illustrations - 'Tree-spotting' shows you how to identify 52 British trees simply and confidently, while also burrowing down into the history and secrets of each species.
£12.99
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One midsummer's day
It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivated by swifts throughout his fifty years as a naturalist, Mark Cocker sets out to capture their essence. Over the course of one day in midsummer he devotes himself to his beloved black birds as they spiral overhead. Yet this is also a book about so much more. Swifts are a prism through which Cocker explores the profound interconnections of the whole biosphere.
£12.99
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La vie
The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside. For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.
£9.99
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Bringing back the beaver
Since the early 1990s - in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals - Derek Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland. 'Bringing Back the Beaver' is farmer-turned-ecologist Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era.
£10.99
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The heart of the woods
The Heart of the Woods blends crafted narrative with stunning nature photography. An eye-opening study of trees, humankind and the natural world.
£16.99
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The jewel box
Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on his roof. Beautiful and ineffably mysterious, these moths offer a glimpse into a larger order, one that extends beyond individual species and into a hidden landscape. Footmen, whose populations are on the march as their lichen food recovers from decades of industrial pollution. The Goat Moth, a thumb-sized broken stick mimic, that takes several years to mature deep in the wood of tree trunks. The Oak Eggar, with the look of a bemused Honey Monster, host to a large wasp that eats its caterpillars alive from the inside. In 'The Jewel Box', he reflects on what he has learned in thirty years of work as a scientist studying ecosystems, and demonstrates how the contents of one small box can illuminate the workings of all nature.
£10.99
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Mountains of fire
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, these fiery mountains have long shaped the path of humanity. World-famous volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer has worked at the crater's edge in the wildest places on Earth. In 'Mountains of Fire' we join him on hair-singeing adventures, close enough to feel the heat of the lava, from Antarctica to Iceland, to learn how deeply our stories are intertwined with volcanoes.
£10.99
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