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Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren 9780701181802 [USED COPY]
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €15.11As with Flora and Birds, Bugs is not a biological guide but a richly-illustrated cultural one, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists - from the great Tudor naturalist,... -
The Devil's Garden: The World's Most Sinister Plants and Fungi by Peter Marren 9781399425469
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
After They're Gone: Extinctions Past, Present and Future Peter Marren 9781529393408
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event. Peter Marren is a brilliant writer and a national... -
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren 9781784703189
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike... -
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain Peter Marren 9781784703370
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20**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... -
The Aurelian Legacy - a History of British Butterflies and their Collectors: With contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley by Michael Salmon 9780946589401
Booksplease Price: €66.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946589401Author Michael SalmonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Ash Edward Parker 9781789143560
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Ash is a beautifully illustrated account of the botanical and cultural faces of the ash tree. The book maps the tree's evolution and geographical spread across the entire Northern Hemisphere over the... -
Galapagos by Paul D. Stewart 9780563493563 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €3.01The Galapagos archipelago is made up of thirteen main islands and more than sixty other islets, rocks and reefs, scattered over four hundred kilometres of open ocean. Sitting at a confluence of four... -
The Swallow: A Biography (Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Award) by Stephen Moss
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.51From 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... -
Where the Wildflowers Grow: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize Leif Bersweden 9781529349573
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02**Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize****Shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries Award**'A meditative, descriptive, easy-to-read book that's perfect for plant lovers.' - Irish Examiner'A delightful,... -
Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker 9780701169077 [USED COPY]
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €4.09The 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... -
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE'Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of... -
Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland by Dr Phil Sterling
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.31'A much-needed guide - you can't truly understand a moth or a butterfly without first getting to know the caterpillar.' - Nick Baker This beautifully illustrated field guide covers caterpillars of... -
Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain’s Cities with an Urban Naturalist Amanda Tuke 9781803998909
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91'Fresh, immediate, and full of vim' - Peter Marren'Carry this book with you. Watch, listen, observe, enjoy.' - Esther WoolfsonIn Wild Pavements, naturalist Amanda Tuke shares her delight in the... -
Mountain Flowers by Michael Scott 9781472967183
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.64'Mountain flowers are the most romantic in our flora, exquisite, enigmatic and, often, remote from human habitation. Michael Scott has not only seen them all but has roamed every part of the hill... -
Heathland by Clive Chatters 9781472964748
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.64'In Clive, we have an ever-fascinating guide to Britain's heathery districts, not only marvelling at the wildlife of such wild places, but also celebrating their diverse origins, uses and cultural... -
One Thousand Shades of Green: A Year in Search of Britain's Wild Plants by Mike Dilger 9781472993632 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €4.52'A cracking read.' IOLO WILLIAMS 'What an incredible achievement!' ALISON STEADMAN 'An inspirational odyssey.' NICK BAKER 'Immediately accessible.' BBC COUNTRYFILE - Mike Dilger's nationwide... -
The Butterfly Collection by Richard Harrington 9781908241566
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Britain's much-revered and studied butterflies are, besides being very beautiful, a fascinating group of insects each with an intricate life story. The aim of this enchanting collection of poetry... -
Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day by Brett Westwood
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.76A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Vibrant, fascinating, poetic - a year in living things: all the things we love, all the things we wish we could, all the little things we step over and never know - the best... -
Orchid Summer by Jon Dunn
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.64'Remarkable ... Evoking the intensity with which orchid hunters pursue their quarry ... Vivid and expressive' Sunday Times 'Wonderfully vivid ... this is a beautifully written celebration of these... -
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead 9781408820131 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €2.99What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going... -
Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo Michael McCarthy 9781848540620
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02If we could see it as a whole, if they all arrived in a single flock, say, we would be truly amazed: sixteen million birds. Swallows, martins, swifts, warblers, wagtails, wheatears, cuckoos, chats,... -
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
RRP: €57.70Booksplease Price: €51.75Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature...