Wildlife: general interest
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Back to Nature
£9.99Back to Nature
One thing has become clear in 2020 – we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful. Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and fascinating scientific discoveries, ‘Back to Nature’ captures the essence of how we feel about the wildlife outside our windows.
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Birds, Beasts and Bedlam
£20.00Birds, Beasts and Bedlam
‘Birds, Beasts and Bedlam’ recounts the adventures of farmer-turned-rewilder Derek Gow, who is saving Britain’s much-loved but dangerously threatened species, from the water vole to beaver, wildcat to white stork, and tree frog to glow worm. Derek tells us all about the realities of rewilding; how he reared delicate roe deer and a sofa-loving wild boar piglet, moved a raging bison bull across the country, got bitten by a Scottish wildcat, returned honking skeins of graylag geese to the land and water that was once theirs, and restored the white stork to the Knepp Estate with Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree.
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Bitch
£20.00Bitch
What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species. Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically. Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii. Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert – the most murderous mammals on the planet. The bitches in ‘Bitch’ overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology, and behaviour. Lucy Cooke’s book will change how you think – about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution.
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Bringing Back the Beaver
£10.99Bringing 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.
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Common or garden
£14.99Common or garden
It’s often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but most of us overlook the extraordinary splendour of the species we encounter daily in the natural world. It’s these species – the most successful plants – that are truly interesting. In this book, Ken Thompson sets out to chart Britain’s fifty-two most common wild plants and to explain the secrets of their success.
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Cornerstones
£17.99Cornerstones
Investigating invaluable wild forces that shape Britain and could save our ecosystems. Delve deep into the world of the invaluable wild forces that helped shape the British Isles and could save our ecosystems in the future. Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and now lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. Could restoring the species that once helped protect these islands be our best solution? By reintroducing just 20 mammal species worldwide, scientists estimate we could restore half the world’s lands to a thriving natural state. From familiar honeybees to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain’s cornerstone species hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas.
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Cornerstones
£10.99Cornerstones
Investigating invaluable wild forces that shape Britain and could save our ecosystems. Delve deep into the world of the invaluable wild forces that helped shape the British Isles and could save our ecosystems in the future. Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and now lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. Could restoring the species that once helped protect these islands be our best solution? By reintroducing just 20 mammal species worldwide, scientists estimate we could restore half the world’s lands to a thriving natural state. From familiar honeybees to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain’s cornerstone species hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas.
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God is an octopus
£20.00God is an octopus
Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Iris, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his Somerset farm. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith tragically lost his beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris was sparkling, charismatic and intelligent, with a lifelong love of nature that she shared with her father. She was the centre of her family’s world, and her death left her family and friends devastated. In the aftermath of Iris’ death, Ben found solace in nature. It became a vital source of meaning, hope, and even joy as Ben undertook the task of rewilding his family home of Cannwood in Somerset’s Brewham Valley in Iris’ honour.
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How to raise a happy cat
£12.99How to raise a happy cat
How to Raise a Happy Cat teaches you how to raise your cat’s happiness levels, and shows you how to connect with them in the way they’ll love best.
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My Family and Other Animals
£7.99My Family and Other Animals
Amidst the olive groves and mountains of Corfu, the Durrell family live in chaotic harmony, welcoming a constant stream of eccentric visitors to their villa. This island paradise is described by the keen young naturalist, Gerald.
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Nightwalking
£9.99Nightwalking
Taking readers on four walks through the four seasons, acclaimed nature writer and farmer John Lewis-Stempel reveals a world bursting with life and normally hidden from view. Out beyond the cities, it is still possible to see the night sky full of stars, or witness a moonbow, an arch of white light in the heavens. It is time for us to leave our lairs and go tramping. To join our fellow creatures of the night.
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On Gallows Down
£10.99On Gallows Down
The story of a life shaped by landscape; of an enduring love of nature and the fierce desire to protect it – living as part of the rural working class in a ‘tied cottage’ on a country estate – and what it takes to feel like you belong. ‘On Gallows Down’ is a book about hope – from the rewilding of Greenham Common after the missiles left to how, as a new mother, Nicola walked the chalk hills to give her children roots, teaching them names and waymarks to find their way home. It is about the songs of the nightingale and cuckoo – whose return she waits for – the red kites, fieldfares, skylarks and lapwings that accompany her, the badger cubs she watches at night and the velvety mole she finds in her garden.
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Our Place in Nature
£10.99Our Place in Nature
A treat for nature lovers, this timely anthology explores our relationship with the natural world through inspiring, classic writing.
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Sky Chasers
£6.99Sky Chasers
Magpie witnesses a strange spectacle above the streets of Paris: a boy suspended in the air. It ends in disaster – even so, Magpie is enthralled by the idea of flying. But others, too, are determined to discover Montgolfier’s secrets …
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Tapestries of Life
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The Badger Book
£9.99The Badger Book
Containing information about their life physiology, their behaviours, their place in literature, art and myth and legend, this book is a must-have for all British nature lovers. The Badger Book is an ideal guide to its subject, beautifully illustrated throughout with previously unpublished photography and artwork.
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