Natural history
Sloths
William Hartston
Format: Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.
Stronghold
Tucker Malarkey
Format: Hard Cover
A book for nature lovers, offering a magical depiction of the last great wildernesses on earth in far-east Siberia.
Nuking the Moon
Vince Houghton
Format: Paperback
Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book.
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
Format: Hard Cover
A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd, introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Format: Hard Cover
A beautiful, collectible gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson.
To the Island of Tides
Alistair Moffat
Format: Hard Cover
This journey through Lindisfarne is a meditation on the power of place, from the author of The Hidden Ways.
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
Nan Shepherd's masterpiece of Scottish nature writing, read by the award-winning Tilda Swinton. Featuring an afterword by Robert Macfarlane and an essay from Jeanette Winterson. (5xCDs)
Shell Life on the Seashore
Philip Street
Format: Paperback
Originally published in 1961, Shell Life on the Seashore is an amateur beachcombing classic. This newly reissued and updated edition includes a new foreword by Philip Hoare and an illustrated fold-out guide to identifying shells on the reverse of the book jacket.
Till the Cows Come Home
Philip Walling
Format: Paperback
The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the author of Counting Sheep.
Buzz
Thor Hanson
Format: Paperback
A superb natural and cultural history of bees - the only such book to celebrate their full diversity.
