Nature Wildlife category: 1081 books
by Mitch Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to...
The Joy of Nature Photography
101 Tips to Improve Your Outdoor Photos
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The best tips anyone can use to take better outdoor pictures.
Nature and the outdoors provide us with exceptional beauty year-round. Now, author and professional photographer Steve Price has put together a collection of tips, tricks, and pointers for any photographer-amateur or pro-to take...
Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind
A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this fascinating book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd refutes popular animal myths like squirrels remembering where they bury nuts, wolves howling at the moon, and oppossums "playing dead."
Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver...
Love, Life, and Elephants
An African Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry...
Wildlife Spectacles
Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book!
People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover...
by Vincent Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A field guide to the wildlife of southern Africa, describing over 2,000 plants and animals, with accurate illustrations in full colour. This book has been a trusted fi eld companion for many years. Comprehensively updated, it now features range maps for most groups. The chapters are colour-coded for...
by Andre Wessels
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Wildlife The South African Way takes the reader on a journey through the wildlife found in South Africa, including the big five. The book highlights unique characteristics of each individual animal. Weve got them from the king of jungle with its fierce mane to the tallest of them all. The fastest...
by Sean Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sasol First Field Guide to Wildlife of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the richly diverse wild life of the region – the more commonly seen spiders, scorpions, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. With the help of full-colour photographs and distribution maps, and easy-to-read...
by Ms Marianne Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Most wildlife books are designed to help you identify the animals you have seen. This book is different. In this new, user-friendly guide one British species is highlighted per page, and each account explains in accessible text how to find it, where to find it and how to ensure you have the most rewarding...
The New Art of Photographing Nature
An Updated Guide to Composing Stunning Images of Animals, Nature, and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A new spin on the classic guide to composing stunning images of nature and wildlife
What is the difference between a good picture and a great one? In this fully revised edition of the classic bestseller The Art of Photographing Nature, master photographer Art Wolfe and former Audubon photo...
Zooburbia
Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses in Zooburbia: Meditations On The Wild Animals Among Us. Urban and suburban residents share their environment with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer,...
From Canoe to Computer
Memoirs of a Career in Wildlife Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The life ways of Native and other northern Canadian inhabitants and the animals they live with, respect, and use are featured in this book. The author describes the aboriginals (First Nations people) and other northern peoples historical and current involvement in the use, studies, and management...
My Backyard Jungle
The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation...
The Great British Year
Wildlife through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Britain is a place of remarkable beauty and extraordinary extremes, boasting immense natural diversity in a comparatively small area. Here, life is run by the seasons: each month brings enormous transformations to our island and its inhabitants, from the largest native mammal to the smallest migrant...