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Birders by Mark Cocker
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Since 1972 Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of obsessional people, almost all male, who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or... -
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the... -
Birds Britannica Mark Cocker 9781784743789
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $92.95The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even... -
Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a... -
A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain.'If you've never read Mark Cocker, then you must. His style is sharp, selfless, and wonderfully evocative,... -
One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker 9781529921991
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent... -
Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples by Mark Cocker 9780802138019
Booksplease Price: $28.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138019Author Mark CockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? Mark Cocker 9781784701024
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Essential reading for anybody who cares about the future' Henry Marsh, *New Statesman Books of the Year*A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature... -
A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker 9781787331761 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $12.41**WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2019**Discover this beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain.For seventeen years, as part of his daily writerly... -
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy Michael McCarthy 9781444792799
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.30A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkNature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy;... -
The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids by Richard Smyth
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Smyth writes with warmth... -
Good Husbandry: Growing a Family on a Community Farm by Kristin Kimball 9781783784707
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35When Kristin Kimball fell in love with a farmer and left behind her life in Manhattan to start a new farm with him in the Adirondacks, she had to learn a lot about farming - and fast. But, it turns... -
Threads by William Henry Searle
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and... -
To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon Richard Shelton 9781843547853
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.09Combining natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, To Sea and Back is a dazzling portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own.'Indispensable and... -
The Brief Life of Flowers Fiona Stafford 9781473686373
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But they've also played a key part in forming the past, and may shape our future.Roses and thistles... -
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life Rosamond Richardson 9781474603003
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.68'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE'A glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds' Bel Mooney, DAILY MAILWritten by a beginner-birdwatcher with the... -
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life by Rosamond Richardson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $9.72'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it' Bel Mooney, Daily MailThe extraordinary world of birds has the power to change lives,... -
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination Richard Mabey 9781861979582
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.28In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from... -
An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants Dame Daphne Sheldrick 9780670919710
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist.A... -
Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain's wildlife is in trouble. It's not just... -
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87Join celebrated naturalist Stephen Moss, host award-winning BBC series Springwatch and author of The Robin, for a year in the idyllic village of Mark on the Somerset Levels - a watery wonderland rich... -
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**One man's quest to save the bumblebee...Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental... -
The Secret World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Masson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'An unbelievably inspiring book' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesDid you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? That chickens are capable of complex communication? That sheep... -
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing'Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology' ObserverWe are... -
A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World by Richard Mabey
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This volume features his favourite... -
Greenery: Journeying with the Spring from Southern Africa to the Arctic by Tim Dee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'A joyful, poetic hymn to spring... Dee is one of our greatest living nature writers' ObserverOne December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the... -
Bee Journal (The Birds and the Bees) by Sean Borodale
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive. ... -
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible,... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: $6.30Booksplease Price: $5.99From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.00A fascinating look at the insect world found in one field in France - and how important that world is to all of us - from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the Tale In 2003 Dave... -
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain Peter Marren 9781784703370
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018**Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain.The mysterious Ghost Orchid blooms in near... -
Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEARGreat nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder... -
Stand By Me by Wendell Berry
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to... -
Cry of the Wild: Life through the eyes of eight animals by Charles Foster 9781804991756
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read' Observer'Enchanting and emotional...personifies its characters as they navigate the new wild and its trials.' Chris Packham'Charles... -
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25'Warmly entertaining...an endearing account of the search for rare bees' GuardianA hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home,... -
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Bird of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history... -
The Swallow: A Biography (Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Award) by Stephen Moss
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88From 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... -
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel,... -
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.67Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed...