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68681 BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS by Graeme Gibson
NATURE
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Mark Twain
70036 LOST AND LEFT BEHIND: Stories from the Age
of Extinctions by Terry Glavin It is a worrying fact that the planet is losing many animal and plant species but, more than that, we are also losing a vast human legacy of languages. With them are disappearing ways of living, seeing and knowing the world. Ecologists are calling the age in which we live the Sixth Great Extinction. The author sets off in pursuit of the very
things we are losing. Along the way, he encounters some of the world’s wonderful, rare occurrences: a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language, a Malayan tiger - the last of its kind - and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places - a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a relic community of Norse whalers and the vault beneath the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. 335 pages, line drawings.
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65650 BEWICK’S BRITISH BIRDS by Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick’s (b. 1753), intricate illustrations and engaging descriptions make his British Birds a treasure of natural history. His name lives on in two species of bird - Bewick’s wren and Bewick’s swan. Each bird is described in detail, particularly as to colours, diet and nesting habits plus his own amusing observations. Jays often assemble in great numbers early in the spring and seem to hold a conference, probably for the purpose of fixing upon the districts they are to occupy. The noise made on these occasions may be aptly compared to that of a distant meeting of disorderly drunken persons.’ 208 pages, 180 delicate engravings. £12.99 NOW £6
69932 WHAT SHAT THAT? The Pocket Guide to Poop
Identity by Matt Pagett The favourite book of our Steve in the warehouse, this will have every infantile mind chuckling, despite it being a technically accurate biological guide. Under seagull we see splatterings of poo which carry more toxins than most bird droppings and see poo that bears traces of the animals’ last meals. See a photograph of a typical gecko poo and learn how to remove it from
windowsills with lemon oil, discover the contents of domestic cat litter trays, horsey heaps (once common in towns), why goldfish are not shy when it comes to pooing in public and why beaver dung, light and fibrous and highly toxic, is usually found floating in water. 50 entries, colour photos and illus of each type of poo in all its glory. 112pp. £9.99 NOW £3
68031 BOOK OF SKIN by Steven Connor The author draws on evidence from a variety of sources film, folklore, painting, photography, popular song, medical texts and literature to argue that, in the culture of the West at least, skin has never been more visible. Examines how skin is displayed and manipulated and analyses aspects from the human body itself through Medieval leprosy, Renaissance flaying, syphilis, cosmetics and plastic surgery to skin cancers. He also examines the chromatics of skin colour and pigmentation, blushing, sun tanning, tattooing and cutting, and progresses to the Turin Shroud, the Mummy and the Invisible Man! 304 paperback pages with illus. £17.50 NOW £2
68119 SPOTLIGHT INTERACTIVE: In the Wild by Jinny Johnson
A big fold-out pack featuring 20 rare and endangered animals recorded on audio and heard at the press of a button. A large interactive world map in colour has small lights which illuminate when the button is pressed for the humpback whale, the Yosemite toad of North America, the Mexican prairie dog, whooping crane, pygmy hippo, lion, chimpanzee, indri of Madagasgar and snow leopard of Asia among others. Then go to the relevant page in the accompanying 60 page hardback book to find out more - Latin name, family, range, size, conservation status and basic details. Colour photos and 80 animals featured. Ages 8+. Activate the replaceable battery. £20.56 NOW £3.75
68662 JACQUES COUSTEAU: The Sea King by Brad Matsen
Vividly conveying the lure of the sea that shaped Jacques Cousteau’s life, the author paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view and treat our planet. Here is Cousteau working for the French resistance during World War II, for which he received France’s Croix de Guerre, developing and risking his life to test, the regulator that made scuba diving possible, becoming a legendary catalyst of the worldwide environmental movement, starring in many documentaries and publishing more than 50 books! Cousteau also married his long-time mistress, 40 years his junior and the mother of two of his children, which kindled a bitter family feud. 296pp, illus. £17.99 NOW £4.50
69469 BAD BEEKEEPER’S CLUB by Bill Turnbull
Written by the presenter of the breakfast programme on BBC1, here is the founder of the Bad Beekeeper’s Club, and his book is a sort of induction course to let you know what you can expect should you decide to venture into the fascinating world of veils and gauntlets and odd- looking hive tools. Despite many setbacks including being stung on the head twice on his first day of training, beekeeping somehow taught Bill a great deal about himself and the world around him. At the same time, his story highlights the very real threats to Britain’s bee population. 247pp in paperback with illus. £7.99 NOW £3.50
Myths, fables, poems, excerpts from travel and nature writing, journals, sacred texts and works of fiction by some of the world’s greatest writers. Here are the well known predators such as bears, big cats, wolves and sharks, set alongside the less celebrated but equally voracious, such as the water shrew, which is capable of killing fish and amphibians many times its weight. He also paints intriguing portraits of legendary beasts such as the Minotaur, Grendel and the biblical Leviathan. Wonderful art, both traditional and contemporary, as well as scientific, religious and mythological drawings, paintings and woodcuts, 180 illus, mostly in colour. 382pp, first US edition of 2009. $35 NOW £4
69208 IMPRESSIONS OF THE SAHARA
by Jean-Loic le Quellec Although the Sahara evokes images of endless shifting sand dunes resembling a raging sea frozen in time, a solid ocean with surging peaks and deep troughs, in reality only one fifth of the Sahara desert is
covered in these remarkable dunes. The rest is dominated by stony, arid stretches of land, rocks, blocks of sandstone, cliffs, hills, precipices, mountains and bizarrely shaped sculptures eroded over the centuries by fierce sand-laden winds, and the occasional outposts of human civilisation scattered across this unforgiving landscape, huddled up against the elements in an apparently doomed, but nevertheless continuous, struggle for survival. This magnificent, visually jaw- dropping book sets out to study the cultural heritage of this ethnically diverse and little-studied region. The book follows the caravan routes across the desert, stopping to celebrate local traditions, art, architecture, markets, oases, manuscripts, raw-earth mosques and much more that is man-made, as well as the otherworldly natural landscape. Colour. 192pp, 11¼” square. £29.95 NOW £13
68780 MY FAMILY AND 50 OTHER ANIMALS: A Year-Long Quest to See Britain’s Mammals by Dominic Couzens
Believe it or not, there are almost 100 mammalian species living in Britain. Many of them are nocturnal, almost all of them are not exactly forthcoming, and most people, even keen natural history enthusiasts would struggle to see more than ten in a year. So how could one ordinary young family manage to see a total of 50 in a year? The book charts the peaks and troughs - figuratively and geographically - as he, his wife Carolyn and their children, Emily (5) and Samuel (3), scour the British countryside and coastline in search of that elusive half-century. Pine martens, edible dormice, orcas, beavers, dolphins and even red-necked wallabies - as well as a great many human eccentrics - all make an appearance. 255pp, colour photos. £17.99 NOW £4
68898 BATS: Biology, Behaviour and Folklore by Glover Morrill Allen
Originally published in 1939 and still regarded as a standard work on the subject, this scientific and literary study starts with bats in folklore and goes on to their biology, habitats, breeding, migration and social habits. Tree-living bats are brighter in colour while the cave- dwelling Ghost Bat is pure white. Bats’ teeth are interesting in that the second set is very different, and this is thought to be an adaptive trait. Migration of bats depends upon the seasonal availability of insects, and bats may hibernate in very low temperatures. 368pp, paperback, photos. £19.99 NOW £4
69039 FUTURE HISTORY OF THE ARCTIC by Charles Emmerson
There is no land at North Pole itself, and the region within the Arctic Circle includes land which is claimed by many countries - each with very different agendas. When you factor in that there is immense oil, gas and mineral wealth to be had when the technology for drilling and mining in such conditions comes about, it is clear that the Arctic is, for all its pristine, subzero whiteness, as hot potato of the highest order. Environmentally, things are looking grim for the animals of the Arctic. Global warming has seen the area of ice cover, upon which the entire ecosystem is dependent, shrink to such levels that it is projected that the Pole itself may actually be ice-free in summer by as early as 2025. Charles Emmerson here shows us why the Arctic is so important. 419pp paperback, photos and other illus. £14.99 NOW £3
69321 BORN FREE: The Full Story by Joy Adamson with
preface by Lord William Percy 50 years ago, conservationist Joy Adamson introduced the world to Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphan cub and raised at her home. But, as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that the mature lion must be returned to the wild, despite the incredible bond
they shared. Today, the Elsa Conservation Trust operates an education, training and wildlife retreat centre at the Adamsons’ former home of Elsamere on the shores of Lake Naivasha in the northern frontier province of Kenya. Here is the chance to discover all three stories, in one volume, in the words of the woman who walked with the lions. Rare b/w photos. 411 pages with maps. £20 NOW £5
69052 PLANET EARTH, THE FUTURE: What the Experts Say
by Fergus Beeley, Mary Colwell and Joanne Stevens
Planet Earth was the most spectacular TV series about the natural world that has ever been broadcast, showing us places and species we had never seen before and making us marvel at the amazing diversity. Here are the thoughts and opinions of more than 40 international experts and leaders including the Archbishop of Canterbury, David Attenborough, James Lovelock, Richard Mabey, Tony Martin, Robert May, Roger Paine, Sandra Postel, Clair Short, E. O. Wilson and others. Find out how climate change is effecting the Earth. 256pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
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69480 DISASTROUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD by John Withington
Subtitled ‘Chronicles of War, Earthquakes, Plague and Flood’, what with tsunamis, monsoon floods and international terrorism, the world seems to get more dangerous by the day. Or does it? Our book takes the reader on an epic journey through the nastiest things to have afflicted mankind. Withington chronicles all the natural calamities including plague and famine and describes in compelling detail all the greatest man-made disasters - war and invasion, riots and terrorism, fires and explosions, stampedes and shipwrecks, air and train crashes. 393pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4
69514 BUTTERFLY ISLES by Patrick Barkham
Subtitled A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals. Exquisite, elusive, ephemeral but totally enchanting, these are our British butterflies. The author visits some beautiful, lost corners of the countryside in an attempt to find every one of them, from the Adonis Blue to the Dingy Skipper, over the course of one unforgettable summer. Here he is witnessing a swarming invasion of Painted Ladies, experiencing the curse of the Purple Emperor and making a euphoric sighting of an exceedingly rare migrant. 372 pages with line drawings, map, list of sites and named butterflies and lovely colour photos. £20 NOW £8
70042 QI BOOK OF ANIMALS by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson From the bestselling writers of the BBC show QI, and with a foreword by Stephen Fry and forepaw by Alan Davies, welcome to the QI Zoo. Spending time with animals makes you start to see the world differently and they have fired our imaginations like nothing else. To take on the power of an animal, the sight of an eagle, the speed of an antelope, the strength of a lion, were the original superpowers. As a species, humans are very new kids on the old block. The original inspiration for this book was the medieval bestiaries. In them you will discover that weasels were conceived through their ears, bees were born from dead oxen and that a goat’s blood was hot enough to dissolve diamonds. In our book are 100 animals, some supposedly familiar, some definitely obscure, and their madly various strategies for feeding, reproducing or just getting about. 224 page illus paperback.
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70050 THE WAVE: In Pursuit of the Oceans’ Greatest Furies by Susan Casey
In an extraordinary account of man confronting nature at its most ferocious, readers will meet the scientists and extreme surfers obsessed with hunting down colossal rogue waves. In 2000, the RRS Discovery was trapped by a vortex of mammoth waves in the North Atlantic. Miraculously, the ship survived and its state-of-the-art equipment registered billows nearing 100 feet. Cut to Maui, Hawaii, as the author tracks an extreme surfing legend, Laird Hamilton and his unique tribe of followers as they hunt down this Grail. The action zips from Lloyds of London to rusty oil rigs, tropical Tahitian surf shacks and supercomputer data labs as our author juxtaposes the exploits of big-wave surfers against scientists’ urgent efforts to predict these deadly phenomena. Here is a breathtakingly exciting book about puny man and his efforts to pit himself against the unstoppable power of nature. 326 paperback pages with colour photos and map. £12.99 NOW £6
70115 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES
by Mike and Peggy Briggs Where do you find walnuts or the golden weeping willow, the Norway maple or the London plane, the white poplar, the song thrush, the nuthatch, the black bean aphid, the buff ermine moth, the slow worm,
the English elm, the spear thistle, sweet violet, gatekeeper butterfly, bats, the sessile oak, the redpoll, the gold crest, hazel dormouse, stoat, osprey, emperor dragonfly and over to the seashore the herring gull, shelduck, sandhopper or lumpsucker? The husband and wife team of authors live in the Outer Hebrides where they can watch otters in the sea from their front garden. Together they have created a stunningly beautiful album of the British Isles and our natural history and Mike’s superb colour photographs adorn every page. Each plant or creature is described and given a potted history with snippets of poetry, country recipes, cross references. 8½” x 11", 384pp. £20 NOW £7.50
NEW AGE AND OCCULT
Everything comes to him who waits - among other things, death. - Francis Herbert
70517 WORKING WITH
PSYCHIC PROTECTION by Teresa Moorey
Wouldn’t you like to feel confident and safe in intimidating situations or places when you are with difficult people? Psychic protection is really about protection of all kinds, starting with mental attitude. It means being saved from the negative
thoughts of others, from the depressing effects of certain places. It deals with the issues in a non-combative way, concentrating on inner peace and balance and a positive attitude. Featuring advice on protective visualisations, affirmations and meditations, together with healing crystals and symbols, this is the essential guide to creating positive energies for you and your loved ones. Teresa Moorey reveals how relaxation, grounding and bodywork, cleansing and protection techniques can help you in a wide range of challenging situations. Understand the energy fields of people, places and situations, discover exercises for building physical strength and confidence, use sound, scent and movement to cleanse spaces and develop a psychic shield before finally learning how to deal with fear and
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70696 DAVID WELLS COMPLETE GUIDE TO DEVELOPING YOUR PSYCHIC
SKILLS by David Wells The former presenter of Living TV’s ‘Most Haunted’ shares the information that has led him to become one of the country’s most popular astrologers and psychics. He believes that increasing your psychic abilities can open you up to greater self-understanding. He
explains how tarot, astrology, numerology and other psychic arts can help you become a stronger and more confident person. His Psychic Tool Box includes astrology shortcuts to help you learn more about personalities, relationships and destiny, the significance of numbers in your life and what they reveal about your life-past, tips for increasing your psychic energy and intuitive power and ways of tuning into your chakras. 216pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
66775 MAMMOTH BOOK OF PROPHECIES by Damon Wilson
The Predictions of Nostradamus and Other Prophets, Visionaries and Seers. Damon Wilson splits the role of prophets into two key categories - as seer of the future and as the living voice of a god. Under the general heading of Religious Prophesy he begins with the ancient tradition of the pagan oracles who believed that their visions of the future were a gift from the gods and then follows the line through the Judaic, Christian and Muslim concepts of the Prophet of God. The second section, Precognitive Prophesy, discusses in depth Nostradamus, probably the greatest seer in history, the Brahan Seer, the Yorkshire visionary Old Mother Shipton; Edgar Case, “The Sleeping Prophet”; Wolf Messing, Stalin’s seer. 501pp paperback. £7.99 NOW £2
67838 HAUNTED PUBS OF THE SOUTH WEST by Ian Addicoat
The Bucket of Blood pub, Hayle, Cornwall, Cannard’s Well Inn, Shepton Mallet which originally had a gibbet as an inn sign, changed only in the 1990s, The Dolphin Tavern, The Finnygook Inn at Crafthole, the First and Last Inn at Sennen, home to both smugglers and ship wreckers since the 17th century, the beautiful village pub the Fleur de Lys near Bath, the Highwayman Inn at Okehampton, a real Aladdin’s cave of gothic artefacts and peculiar maritime furnishings originally built in 1282. There is a salty old seadog who disappears through a wall and a benevolent monk who appears to assist people when they are ill. A chilling picture of this ghost-infested corner of England. 128pp in large paperback, b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £4
67989 LITTLE BOOK OF MAGICAL CREATURES
by Elizabeth Pepper and Barbara Stacy Elizabeth Pepper was a pioneer of magical publishing. An update of the classic ‘Magical Creatures’, this loving tribute has an added section of enchanting animal myths from other times and other places - a lady shape-shifts into a white doe, an elephant struggles with a crocodile, two bears soar skyward, and Brian Boru rides Pooka horse and not forgetting the Calico Cat and the cat and the moonstruck ladle, the rainbow snake and the laughing frogs and why crows are black. Bold line art. 176pp in paperback. ONLY £2.50
68175 WICCA BIBLE by Ann-Marie Gallagher
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The Wicca Bible includes everything you need to know about magic and the Craft including customs and traditions, visualisations, rituals, spells, divination techniques, circlework and coven etiquette. If you are new to Wicca, you will find practical advice on such everyday business as how to put together an altar, consecrate magical tools and carve a circle, for the experienced practitioner, you will deepen and expand your understanding of Wiccan spirituality. Over three million copies in this superb series have been sold worldwide. 400pp with hundreds of colour photos and some tables.
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68594 VIRAGO BOOK OF GHOST STORIES edited by Richard Dalby
Lost loves, past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with unquiet souls in these tales from some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes Joan Aiken, A. S. Byatt, Charlotte Bronte, Angela Carter, E. N. Delafield, Antonia Fraser, Elizabeth Gaskell, Stella Gibbons, Penelope Lively, E. Nesbit, May Sinclair, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Edith Wharton, Richmal Crompton and Ruth Rendell. Haunting, horrifying and spooky, this is a collection perhaps not to keep by the bedside! 498pp in paperback. £10.99 NOW £4
68842 THE SIMON IFF
STORIES AND OTHER WORKS by Aleister Crowley This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley’s most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher- psychoanalyst-detective Simon Iff.
The six Scrutinies of Simon Iff stories are set in France and England, anchored by Iff’s beloved Hemlock Club. The twelve Simon Iff in America stories afford Crowley’s penetrating insights into America as he found it during his residence from 1914 to 1919. His three Simon Iff Abroad stories take the reader to tribal North Africa, inaccessible Central Africa and to the high seas. The two Simon Iff Psychoanalyst stories were among the earliest tales to use the new science of psychoanalysis to solve mysteries. Also included is Crowley’s other major short fiction series, the eight stories of his legendary Golden Twigs and The Golden Bough. This collection is a companion volume to Crowley’s previously uncollected short stories, The Drug and Other Stories. 551pp. Wordsworth paperback. ONLY £3
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