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The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals: Second Edition by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: £35.00£27.22This is the definitive field guide to African Mammals, fully revised and updated following the publication of the groundbreaking Mammals of Africa (2013). Jonathan Kingdon, one of the world's foremost authorities on African mammals, has both written... -
One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere by Emma Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.40EMMA GRAY'S NEW BOOK 'MY FARMING LIFE' ('A HEARTWARMING TALE OF LIFE ON THE LAND' Alan Titchmarsh) IS OUT NOWWhat happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new?When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take... -
Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada by Stephanie Rutherford
£29.35A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected.Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and... -
Animal Lessons: Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with Animals by Danielle Mackinnon 9780738751351
RRP: £15.99£9.80Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person along the way. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus-if you pay attention. They guide you toward the next step... -
Collins Complete Irish Wildlife: Introduction by Derek Mooney (Collins Complete Guide) by Paul Sterry
RRP: £18.99£13.11The essential photographic guide to Ireland's wildlife. Collins Complete Irish Wildlife describes almost all the mammals, birds, fish and butterflies of Ireland likely to be encountered by the keen amateur naturalist, as well as all the common... -
The Faber Book of Beasts by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn't know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure.' Independent William Wordsworth's 'To a Skylark'W.B... -
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual Guide to Prehistoric Animals by DK
RRP: £30.00£23.35Dive into an unprecedented survey of millions of years of life on planet Earth. Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life is a beautifully crafted encyclopedia of prehistoric species that the whole family can enjoy. Featuring an incredible mix of 3D... -
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer
RRP: £10.99£7.25Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time... -
Seaweed: Foraging, Collecting, Pressing by Melanie Molesworth
RRP: £30.00£19.57A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational and inspirational, this guide to bringing the outdoors inside is quite unlike anything on the market and will inspire all readers to begin... -
The Way of the Hare by Marianne Taylor
RRP: £11.99£8.43An exploration of the relationship between humans and the charismatic and elusive hare. To the people of rural Britain, hares are deeply beloved, perhaps above all other animals. They thrive in abundance in imagery but can be maddeningly elusive in... -
Meetings with Moths: Discovering their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives by Katty Baird
RRP: £18.99£12.28Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer. In Meetings with Moths ecologist Katty Baird... -
Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds by Tessa Boase
RRP: £12.99£8.60Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the... -
The New Big 5: A Global Photography Project for Endangered Species by Graeme Green
RRP: £62.50£40.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647228705Author Graeme GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
RRP: £9.99£7.71The third collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This omnibus edition comprises of Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin. Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of London is a... -
Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds by Stuart Royall
RRP: £10.99£7.12From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the... -
Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore by Eric R. Eaton
RRP: £10.99£8.45A fun and fact-filled A-Z treasury for the insect lover in all of usInsectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and... -
The Swallow: A Biography (Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Award) by Stephen Moss
RRP: £12.99£8.32From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With around 700,000 breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most familiar birds in Britain. Though we consider the swallow to be 'our' bird, we also share this... -
My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm by Emma Gray
RRP: £9.99£4.71AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S HIT TV-SHOW 'THIS FARMING LIFE''A heartwarming tale of life on the land' Alan Titchmarsh'There's love and loss, challenge and adversity, but above all it's warm, insightful and inspiring' Helen Skelton'Will inspire any reader to look... -
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution by Lee Raye
RRP: £45.00£36.75What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before climate change, before the intensification of agriculture, before even the Industrial Revolution. In the... -
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
RRP: £22.00£14.56CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES'Entertaining and original.' Guardian'Accessible and insightful, it's a thought-provoking read.' Observer' Highly readable.' The Times'Nothing less than brilliant.' Wall Street JournalWhat if... -
The Otters' Tale by Simon Cooper
RRP: £10.99£7.25Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 'The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far' Richard Shelton, Times Literary Supplement When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small... -
Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky by Sarah Gibson 9780008350666
RRP: £10.99£7.25Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return... -
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery 9781471146756
RRP: £9.99£6.23'Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk did for raptors' New Statesman'Charming and moving...with extraordinary scientific research' Guardian'An engaging work of natural science... There is... -
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways by Derek Gow
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside.' Guardian 'This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long-running controversy.' The Spectator 'Gow has a fire in... -
Bats of Britain and Europe by Christian Dietz
RRP: £30.00£22.39This concise and definitive guide presents all 45 bat species that regularly occur in Europe (of which 17 are known to breed in the British Isles). The extensive introduction details the remarkable biology of bats and explores the latest findings in bat... -
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI 9780008485993
RRP: £9.99£6.52She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' ... -
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg 9781529387933
RRP: £12.99£8.60SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Refreshingly clear'Sunday Times'A hugely enjoyable slice of popular science'Daily Mail__________ A journey from the farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge... -
Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
RRP: £12.99£9.09For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns. In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess... -
21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Glorious - funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane'A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' GuardianLonglisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 201821st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family... -
An Underwater Guide to the Red Sea (2nd) by Lawson Wood
RRP: £14.99£10.95An Underwater Guide to the Red Sea introduces over 1,000 species of invertebrate and over 200 species of coral, forming the basis of a marine eco-system which includes 1,100 species of fish, of which just under 20% are endemic. The high level of endemism... -
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones 9781783963041
RRP: £10.99£7.26As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns.; Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more... -
Nests by Susan Ogilvy
RRP: £20.00£13.50An exquisitely illustrated, one-of-a-kind celebration of the hidden beauty of nature and the ingenuity of birdsSusan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a... -
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel 9781529392647
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Scheel brings the world of the octopus vividly alive. The best nature books do not just describe animals: they give us a sense of what it might be like to shape-shift ourselves and live in their skins.' Financial Times'Fascinating. The deepest of... -
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart 9781565129603
RRP: £13.99£9.20In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes-creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the... -
Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin
RRP: £22.00£14.96This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia which constructs huge, multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the desert, to the Bar-headed Goose of China, one of the highest-flying... -
Every Living Thing: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
RRP: £10.99£7.71The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. During his decades spent as a country vet in Yorkshire, James Herriot has seen huge advances in medical science, technological leaps, and... -
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.' -... -
The Little Book of Palaeontology: The Pocket Guide to Our Fossilized Past by Rasha Barrage 9781837990139
RRP: £6.99£5.00If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology... -
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick
RRP: £22.00£7.32THE INSTANT NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick shares some of the most personal and powerful tales ever from his life as The Supervet... -
The Overloaded Ark by Gerald Durrell
RRP: £9.99£6.70Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the...