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  • Big Game of Botswana

    The Tragic History of a Once Great Southern African Fauna

    by Clive Spinage ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Quoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cattle Plague

    A History

    by Clive Spinage ...
    Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social. Then ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I

    The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to terms with the land they found, and each had to make sense of the other.The long Aboriginal ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • From Cook to Convicts

    A Voyage of Adventure, Mayhem and Discovery

    by John Darkin ...
    Series series Little Red Books
    In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical "Great Southern Land". He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to complete one of the great voyages of exploration. But ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Predators

    by Alex MacCormick ...
    Series Book 396 - Mammoth Books
    Don't go into the woods today. . .If you're on a cruise, tramping through a forest or holidaying in an exotic location, you are constantly being watched - somewhere close by a creature is lurking, stalking and eyeing your every move. The variety and range of these potential predators is truly astonishing, from Asiatic wolves to rogue elephants, fire ants to sharks, snakes, crocodiles and grizzlies ... Read more

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  • Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years

    Pre-1788

    by Jackie French ...
    Series Book 01 - Fair Dinkum Histories
    In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent-and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many nations of Indigenous people had already been living there for tens of thousands of years . . . ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Malay Archipelago

    by Alfred Russell Wallace ...
    This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Malaysia.A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fossils, Finches and Fuegians

    Charles Darwin’s Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle (Text Only)

    by Richard Keynes ...
    A narrative account of Darwin’s historic 4-year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s that combines the adventure and excitement of Alan Moorehead’s famous (and now out of print) account with an expert assessment of the scientific discoveries of that journey. The author is Charles Darwin’s great-grandson.In his autobiography, Charles Darwin wrote: ‘The ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • An Arid Eden

    A Personal Account Of Conservation In The Kaokoveld

    by Garth Owen-Smith ...
    Two remarkable tales woven together - the story of the Kaokoveld, an arid eden in the remote north-west of Namibia, so nearly lost, but regained to become one of Africa's iconic wildlife tourism destinations, and also the story of a young man's search for an African way to do conservation in Africa. Garth Owen-Smith first visited the Kaokoveld in 1967. It was a life-changing experience. His ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Borneo, Celebes, Aru

    by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
    Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • In Wildest Africa

    The Record Of A Hunting And Exploration Trip Through Uganda, Victoria Nyansa, The Kilimanjaro Region And British East Africa, With An Account Of The Snowfields Of Mount Kibo, In East Central Africa.

    by Peter MacQueen ...
    The record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyansa, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various tribes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stuarts’ Field Guide to National Parks & Game Reserves

    Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi

    by Chris Stuart, Mathilde Stuart ...
    The first guide ever to document and explore the diverse parks and reserves of Africa’s ‘middle belt’, it covers Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. The region contains prized spots such as the world-famous landscapes of the Namib and Kalahari deserts, Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls and Lake Malawi, and some of Africa’s best-known conservation areas, including Etosha, Chobe, Mana Pools ... Read more

    $15.19 USD