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Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing'Reading this book might make you wish to set fire to your smartphone, but it might also make you wish to call...

Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland...

Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise,...

Polar bears, penguins, Arctic foxes, seals, and many more polar animals withstand the extreme weather conditions in the Arctic Circle and Antarctica. Turn the wheel so penguins can dive into...

While representing a strongly feminist perspective, the liturgies speak to women and men of many traditions and can be used either as they are or as a springboard for creating...

In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the...

175 photos illustrate this account by photographer Ponting of his journey with Capt. Robert Scott to the Antarctic, a voyage from which Scott did not return.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean world of 400 years ago, but the perspective stretches back to the world of Homer, and the foreground reaches up to the 20th century....

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus...

This is the story of the struggle by a small group of people who sought to defend the life that belongs to a continent. The name they gave that struggle...

'In The Drink' is the unflinching second poetry collection from Emily Crocker. Poems stream through ' In The Drink ', collecting hauntings of desire and futures lost. Visceral and at...

Ten years after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers , acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but...

Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from "the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians" (Newsweek). Among the contemporary voices for the Earth,...

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times...

Tim Hurburgh's Tall Poplars:Tales of Tasmania's fabled River Derwent Valley provides a fascinating fresh take from the murkier days of Van Diemen's Land through to today's picturesque Apple Isle. Stories...

Tim Hurburgh's Tall Poplars:Tales of Tasmania's fabled River Derwent Valley provides a fascinating fresh take from the murkier days of Van Diemen's Land through to today's picturesque Apple Isle. Stories...

Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her trademark wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a kinder, brighter world and better mental health Bestselling author...

'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of laughs about "the climate situation" and will position you...

SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Eve Pownall Award In 1959, four scientists travelled to an island at the edge of the world. They were greeted by giant seabirds, snorting seals and penguins...

Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself- what it...

The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have...

An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 'One of the most electrifying writers...

A titanic history of the three great oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - and of mankind's relationship with the sea from the first voyagers to the...

Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia's regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make a quick buck. The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset....

An extraordinary true tale of love, shipwreck and survival, beautifully told -- Maurice and Maralyn's escape from 1970s England and its oil crisis, strikes and inflation is also a story...

A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...

The Sunday Times bestselling tour-de-force from the author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways - an unmissable journey into the hidden worlds beneath our feet 'Into the underland...

Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror...

One of Britain's most popular public philosophers introduces the six ways we can drastically change the way we think in order to ensure a tomorrow- long-term thinking for a short...

25th anniversary edition of this cherished story of love, loss, war and heroism - from one of our bestselling authors 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE...

A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part...

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. - Karen Blixen The ocean is an icon of our summer holidays and a place of happy memories...

'A perfect example of what cosy crime should be like - drama, mystery and intrigue' Ginger Book Geek 'There is so much drama and entertainment crammed into this fantastic book...

'A perfect example of what cosy crime should be like - drama, mystery and intrigue' Ginger Book Geek 'There is so much drama and entertainment crammed into this fantastic book...

This handy guide is brimming with quick tips, life hacks and budget-friendly tricks to help you reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainablyAn eco-friendly lifestyle is expensive and time-consuming,...

In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the...

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...

A breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express 'I urge everybody to pick up a copy' STUART TURTON'Be warned - once you step into The Cautious Traveller's Guide...

'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This is a record of a year of...

There is so much confusing and conflicting information about the world in which we live that the truth can be impossible to find. The rise of modern scepticism against `fake...

'Heart-wrenching . . . a story that needs to be remembered' FERN BRITTON'Enthrallingly told . . . it's extraordinary how despite everything hope for the future shines out' RACHEL HORE...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...