Natural History

A practical and indispensable guide which covers all you need to know about keeping poultry in your own back garden. Find out: What housing and ba...

This new book explains how to take great shots of animals moving in water, land and air, as well as perhaps less obvious plant movement. The main ...

As much as 70 per cent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it is not surprising that so many members of the Womens Lan...

Understanding the Horse's Feet sets out to explain the complexity of this subject in terms that the lay person can understand, and help the horse o...

For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone wo...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skate...

The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most v...

This is tropical Africas first Red Data book for plants. Cameroon contains tropical Africas most species-diverse hotspots for plants; many are rare...

This book provides a flora of the Mefou area, Cameroon. Introductory chapters cover the vegetation, geology, soil types, climate, threats, invasive...

E.F. (Teddy) Norton was a member of the 1922 Everest expedition and the leader of the 1924 attempt on the mountain. In 1922 he reached a then recor...

Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor incr...

Answering over 600 interesting questions about dinosaurs, this fun-filled fact-book provides a wealth of information on the lives and habits of the...

Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right pe...

Internationally bestselling author Dan Ariely brings his unique perspective to bear on a maelstrom of lifes problems from how to deal with a Chris...

Endless sky, rock, and water: Where the arid grasslands of southern Argentina meet the Atlantic Ocean, the wild winds and waters of Patagonia have ...

A wonderland of sky, water, grass, and birdsong, the Ibera marshlands of Corrientes Province are the preeminent wildlife habitat in Argentina and a...