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  • Waving, Not Drowning

    by Lev Parikian ...
    Anyone who has ever wondered exactly what a conductor is doing will find the answers in this book. Covering a multitude of issues including technique, player psychology, shirt colours, anecdotes, pencil choices and much more besides, Waving, Not Drowning is the indispensable guide for all budding Maestros.With the tragic death of co-author and doyen of the podium Barrington Orwell in an as yet ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Flight

    The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

    by Lev Parikian ...
    This is the miracle of flight as you' ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It' s an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It' s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that in for a moment. This animal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light Rains Sometimes Fall

    A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons

    by Lev Parikian ...
    See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Tangled Bank

    In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature

    by Lev Parikian ...
    Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experience nature. Open a window, hear the birds calling and join him. --------- It's often said that the British are a nation of nature lovers; but what does that really mean? Lev Parikian sets out to explore the many, and particular, ways that he, and we, experience the natural world - beginning face down ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 12 Birds to Save Your Life

    Nature's Lessons in Happiness

    Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves - a balm for the soul' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'Totally absorbing and completely engaging on so many levels . . . Charlie has opened my ... Read more

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  • ReWild

    The Art of Returning to Nature

    by Nick Baker ...
    As our busy, technology-driven lives become more sedentary and less connected to wildlife, it is important to remember the natural, human connection we have to the wilderness.Nick Baker, naturalist and wildlife presenter, takes the reader back to our natural instincts. Journeying through the senses, his expert advice offers the practical tools to experience the wilderness on your own doorstop as ... Read more

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  • At the Water's Edge

    A Walk in the Wild

    "This wonderful collection of wildlife encounters will make anyone want to pull on their boots and re-discover the world on our doorsteps."—Kate Humble, TV host & authorFor the last thirty years, naturalist John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter—a fragile spider's ... Read more

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  • Nightwalk

    A journey to the heart of nature

    by Chris Yates ...
    Chris Yates, one of Britain’s most insightful and lyrical writers, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside.“Last November, the sudden appearance of a hundred wintering ravens in a wood in Cranborne Chase, where I have lived for twenty-five years without seeing more than a few solitary specimens, reminded me that there is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Drawing and Painting Birds

    by Tim Wootton ...
    Birds are much admired, revered and envied. They have featured in art for many thousands of years and our fascination with them continues. They do though pose a challenge to paint and are not always the most cooperative of models. This practical book explains in detail how to go about drawing and painting birds. By understanding their anatomy and recognising their type, the artist can learn a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Death on Earth

    Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

    There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms.Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of starvation, drought, volcanic eruptions, meteorites, plagues, parasites, predators, freak weather events, tussles and scraps, and our bodies are shaped ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

    Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals - and Other Forgotten Skills

    Series series Natural Navigation
    **“The Sherlock Holmes of nature.”—BBCTurn every walk into a game of detection—with master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Read a Tree and The Natural Navigator“The world’s least lost wanderer. . . . Tristan’s forever stopping, examining, trying to solve the riddles that nature sets in front of him.”—Smithsonian**When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley ... Read more

    $10.69 USD