Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand: The Definitive Guide by Andrew Matheson; Murray Reid
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the bible for New Zealand beekeepers. The only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand, it provides both amateur and professional beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive pr ...Show more
Collecting New Zealand Minerals by Chris Fraser
57.50 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
This book is a guide for those people who want to go out and collect New Zealand minerals. It will help you identify a lot of the minerals, which identification tests are the most useful, where to look for certain minerals, which minerals are common and which ones you are unlikely to find as good specim ...Show more
Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand Fully Revised Edition by George Gibbs
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Have you ever wondered why New Zealand's plants and animals are so different from those in other countries? Why kakapo is the only parrot in the world that cannot fly, or why the kiwi lives here and nowhere else? New Zealand is an extraordinary place, unique on earth, and the remarkable story of how and ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Insects and Spiders by John Early
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Know Your Ser.
New Zealand's insects include some of the world's most remarkable, including the giant weta (one of the world's heaviest insects, dating from dinosaur days) and the world's longest weevil. The most iconic, important and most prominent species and groups feature in Know Your New Zealand Insects & Spi ...Show more
Protecting Paradise: 1080 and the Fight to Save New Zealand's Wildlife by Dave Hansford
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
New Zealand’s native wildlife is in crisis, withering under a relentless assault from rats, stoats, possums and other introduced pests. If we are to realise the vision of a predator-free New Zealand, we must defend our biodiversity more doggedly, across a broader front than we do now. 1080 poison remain ...Show more
Powell's Native Animals of New Zealand by Brian Gill (ed)
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
The 4th edition of this classic work, first published in 1947. It provides a simple ready reference for identifying common New Zealand animals, ranging from the simplest invertebrates through to mammals. The text has been updated and Powell's illustrations have been rescanned from the originals, resulti ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians of New Zealand by Tony Jewell
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Photographic Guide to | Reading Level: very good
Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than 65 species of lizards (including skinks and geckos), frogs and other reptiles and amphibians native to New Zealand, and scientists ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Fishes by Tony Enderby
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
New Zealand boasts beautiful and unique coastlines, lakes and rivers, brimming with more than 1100 different fish species. In Know Your New Zealand Fishes, Jenny and Tony Enderby identify more than 80 of the country's best-known or most significant species that are commonly seen as readers dive, fish, s ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
Spiders (A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand...) by Andrew Crowe
14.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand...
A handy guide to the identification of New Zealand Spiders. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular bestseller Which New Zealand Spider?, this little book has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick accurate identification of spiders, this new mini guid ...Show more
Which New Zealand Insect? by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Which...?
Ninety percent of New Zealand's insects are unique. Many of these little-known creatures play an important part in our ecology. This book is both a field guide and a gallery, displaying the variety and beauty of an often-overlooked side of New Zealand’s wildlife. Ideal for children, trampers, mountainee ...Show more
Which New Zealand Seashell? by Andrew Crowe
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
An illustrated guide that helps you find out simply and accurately Which seashell is it?