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Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires. Gale force adv...

Metamorphosis has always been one of biology's greatest wonders and toughest riddles. To emerge a butterfly, a caterpillar dissolves inside its chrysalis and builds a brand new brain, wings and legs. Why all this destruction and remodelling? Why all this wasted energy and time?Oren Harman beautifull...

Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring ...

A compact edition of Joseph Banks’ extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook’s first voyage.Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira,...

'A wondrous work of walking, seeing and thinking' - Robert Macfarlane'A startlingly brilliant and moving debut' - William DalrympleA deep observation of coast and wetland, climate and self, by a leading Indian ecological activist.Introduction by Robert Macfarlane.Written in spellbinding prose, revea...

A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.Everything we think about nature is deeply cultural. And much of what we imagine is based on outdated, irrelevant, or out-of-place beliefs. How are these ideas affectin...

The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. C...

11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near Nonsuch Island, a curious steel ball is lowered 3,000 feet into the sea. Crumpled inside, the famed zoologist William Beebe gazes out of the thick quartz windows, watching luminous marine life and never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky darkness.A deep...

An absorbing, compelling and informative book filled with answers to many of the common and often uncommon questions we ask about birdsong.While the question 'why do birds sing?' might seem a simple one, the answer is complex!Throughout our history birdsong has influenced art, poetry and music. It c...

Where do we come from and how did we get here?Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max TelfordA four-billion-year journey through the evolution of our planet, The Tree of Life tells the fascinating story of the gigantic family tree that records...

“teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" ObserverA narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.Look at the green organism across the room or throu...

One hundred native flowers of Aotearoa revealed in extraordinary 3D photography.Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for stud...

A mesmerising, mind-expanding global story which shows how trees have learned to use the soil, air, water, plants, fungi, fire, animals and people around them to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined.Taking us on an awe-inspiring journey through deep history and ...

'Jamie Lafferty embarks on an epic quest - in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'A wise, rude, hilarious and oddly moving accou...

'An insightful book with sparkling wit and humour that will appeal to new and seasoned readers of palaeontology.'Dr Anjana Khatwa, TV presenter and Earth ScientistIt is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms sparking into life in...

As a nature artist, Niels Meyer-Westfeld has drawn horns, hooves, skin, scales, and fur, but nothing is as versatile as feathers. In this book he explores the feathers of Aotearoa’s native birds, from the long wing feathers of an albatross that enable it to soar endlessly over the oceans, to the t...

Caring for Kahurangi is the story of one of the most successful community-led conservation projects in New Zealand. For the last 25 years, the volunteer group Friends of Flora has been trapping predators, translocating birds, surveying and monitoring, determined to restore the biodiversity of the ru...

This book is a photographic tribute to the beautiful but little-known world of New Zealand fungi. It is the work of Paula Vigus, who was the photographer for the spectacularly successful 'Fungi of Aotearoa: A curious forager's field guide', published in 2023. In 'A Hidden World' she showcases the ex...

Part of the wildly popular Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series, Native Spiders of Aotearoa is an accessible, handsomely illustrated guide to fifty of New Zealand’s most interesting native arachnid species, most of which are endemic to New Zealand.Written by Te Papa entomology curator Phil Sirvid, Nativ...

Part of the wildly popular Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series, Native Fishes of Aotearoa is an accessible, handsomely illustrated guide to sixty of our most commonly encountered and interesting native coastal and freshwater fish species of Aotearoa New Zealand.Written by Te Papa fishes expert Andrew Ste...

Roger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writing Wildwood is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cent...