A Handful of Happiness by Massimo Vacchetta; Jamie Richards (Translator); Antonella Tomaselli (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The heart-warming story of how a tiny hedgehog helped one man find hope. 'Could you look after it for a couple of days? . . .' So begins the extraordinary friendship between veterinarian Massimo, who is at a low spot in his life, and a tiny, orphaned hedgehog. Only a few days old, covered with soft, whi ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Australia by Scott Eipper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Naturalist's Guide
It's the first book to show every species and subspecies of Australian snake, and the first new book on Australian snakes to be published for 27 years. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size, di ...Show more
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou ...Show more
A Short Philosophy of Birds by Philippe J. Dubois; Élise Rousseau
$24.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creatures There is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will help you spread your wings and soar. We often need the help from those smaller than us. Having spent a li ...Show more
A Traitor to His Species - Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
$45.00 AUD
Category: Animals
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for ani ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Eileen Myles-"a kick-ass counter-cultural icon" (New Yorker)-has written an innovative and intimate account of living with a pit bull named Rosie
Ajax the Kea Dog: A working dog's life in the high country by Corey Mosen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The highly illustrated, heartwarming story of conservation heroes, dog Ajax and his handler Corey, who traverse remote parts of the South Island tracking kea nests. Together, Corey and Ajax travel through the steep high country throughout the South Island searching out kea nests. Their part in the kea ...Show more
All About Butterflies of Austr by Sankowsky Garry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Animals
This new title investigates the ever-popular subject of Australian butterflies. Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these insects, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult butterfly. It also covers subjects such as defence mechanisms cam ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in Kersko, about an hour's drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to ...Show more
Almost Human: A Biography of Julius the Chimpanzee by Alfred Fidjestol
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals