Natural History

In 2005 Peter Wright walked the 1,200 km length of the Watershed in 64 days. Walking along the very spine of Scotland he was struck by the magnific...

'Like Sir David Attenborough, he has the rare ability to be an excellent communicator and has written an engaging book sprinkled with mind-blowing ...

The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 120 volume...

The latest in the New Naturalist series documents the parks and green spaces unique to Britain's cities - and the wildlife that has flourished in t...

A definitive natural history of the Yorkshire Dales, covering the range of wildlife habitats, rich cultural heritage and ecological history of one ...

Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, ...

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Beautiful' Amy Liptrot'Powerful, unflinch...

A photographic celebration of British wildlife and the country way of life. A Year in the Country is a book about the beauty o...

It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began.

Test your National Parks knowledge with these 300 crossword puzzles! Organized into 50 easy, 225 medium, and 25 difficult puzzles, see how many you...

Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?...

'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and u...

Foreword by Gillian Burke This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact....Let''s all get rebugging right away! Hugh Fear...

The genus Gladiolus has fascinated plant collectors, taxonomists and the general public for centuries. Known for their spectacular flowers, these h...

Award-winning producer and journalist Daire Whelan had reached the end of another busy week and couldn't shake the feeling that life was passing hi...

For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communica...

Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily ant...

WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRÉ SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a ...

Whats to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable wor...

A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough''s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet...

Waterstones Non fiction Book of the Month November 2021 A delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and adventure through froz...

What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk ones way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy...

The Emma Bridgewater factory is a thriving visitor attraction and a mecca for lovers of its iconic pottery; but tucked within is a walled garden bu...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wil...