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The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the (SIGNED)
When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible - but though we...
Lewis and Clark - across the Divide
Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark, two men shaped by Jefferson's Enlightenment ideas, encountered an Indian world they only partly understood. Their discoveries and the artifacts from their journey...
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...
Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
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...
The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary,...
The Times Desktop Atlas of the World
Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged.An excellent world atlas for everyday use at home or work, representing broad coverage at a great price. Clear, authoritative Times...
Weather Almanac 2024: The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather
The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather with details of famous meteorologists and their influence....
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...
The Explosive History of Volcanoes
Spewing out fountains of red-hot lava and toxic plumes of smoke, volcanoes are dangerous and deadly. But every volcano is different - in shape and size, location and destructiveness. ...
Lure of the South Seas: Voyages of Dumont D'urville 1826-1840
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Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
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The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
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The Night Sky: An astronomers guide to the night sky and the universe
Discover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when and how to observe space and understanding the night...
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of...
The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)Significance
Though the concept of "the universe" suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single...
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet
A beautiful and informative history of life on our planet.It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...
Egypt Lost and Found:Explorers and Travellers on the Nile: Explorers and Travellers on the Nile
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Trees - 10 Things You Should Know: The perfect stocking filler [...]
Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's...
SPICE ROUTE
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The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Gull Next Door: A Portrait of a Misunderstood Bird
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however,...
Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in [...]
In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other...
Extrasolar Planets
This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one...
Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope
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50 Earth Ideas
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Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
Author: Callum RobertsFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 222mm, 624g, 368 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine...
Cold Burial: A True Story of Endurance and Disaster in the Barren Grounds
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By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
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Solar Power
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Wind Power
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Sustainable Energy
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
Author: Dani RobertsonFormat: Hardback, 141mm x 222mm, 430g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging'...
Remarkable Treks
Author: Colin SalterFormat: Hardback, 285mm x 250mm, 1320g, 224 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks,...
Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery
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All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
Author: Dani RobertsonFormat: Hardback, 141mm x 222mm, 430g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging'...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Forces of Nature
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Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home
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Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
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