The cleverness of crickets, crows, cockatoos: a fascinating study of the relationship between genes and behaviour. (The book is published in the US as some eagle-eyed readers will perceive).
A subtle and wide-ranging exploration of the complex boundaries we have with animals and birds, from pre-history to the present; the author's earlier book, 'Corvus: A Life with Birds' was ou... read more
The sparrow-sized sandpiper flies uninterrupted from Canada to Venezuela, equivalent to running 126 marathons back-to-back, without food, water, or rest. It stays hydrated by sipping moistur... read more
De Waal is a (if not the) leading primatologist and ethologist whose research into cooperation, conflict,etc leads him to fascinating parallels between primate and human behaviour in aspects... read more
760 species of Lepidoptera, painted between 1780 and 1800 by an amateur entomologist and wine merchant called William Jones, who worked from the collections of Joseph Banks, the Linnaean Soc... read more
A glorious combination of photography and cutting-edge technology - yet even while we can map migratory routes with geolocators, there is much still unknown. Large format.
Boreal forests in Europa, Asia and North America account for a third of the world's trees and are essential for life on this planet. Less than 12% is protected... Large format, with stunning... read more
Thorogood's version of 'up hill and down dale' takes him over cliffs and up volcanoes - all in the pursuit of pitcher plants, irises, orchids... Illustrated by the author.
Six centuries of plant classification and description are a unique source of data for us now. By the director of the Steere Herbarium in the New York Botanical Garden - the second largest he... read more
Tesson practised living in extreme cold on the shores of Lake Baikal a few years ago, memorably and entrancingly recounted in Consolations of the Forest. Here he has renounced both solitude ... read more