Penguin Books Australia

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that...

A timely reminder of how far we've come since the days of routine slaughter, of how hard conservationists fought to bring it to an end, and how vigilant we must be in making sure that the dark days of whaling are behind us forever.' - Tim Winton

Peter Schouten and Tim Flannery have collaborated again to create another gorgeous treasury of remarkable...

In 1960, when he was a fifteen-year-old schoolboy at Timbertop, Peter Nicholson began to investigate the secret world of wombats by crawling down their burrows and making friends with them. In this enthralling book James Woodford, bestselling author...

Vanessa Woods, Australian scientist and author, thinks she has found her true love: chimpanzees. But in a reckless moment, she accepts a marriage proposal from a man she barely knows – and agrees to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. All she knows is that they'll be studying bonobos, an extremely endangered species of ape with whom humans share 98.7% of our DNA...

The beauty and drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life in a compact format

From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds, photographed and studied in their natural environments around the world.

There's a lot that animals don't want you to know, and the better their public image, the worse their secrets are: gang-rapist dolphins; lazy, infanticidal lions; and, of course, our own dogs, who eat our money, set our houses on fire, and in more than one case, actually shoot their owners with guns.

What's it like to hear your skull crack in a grizzly bear's jaws?

Or have a hyena drag you from a tent at night – by your face?

Or lose a fight to a pair of whitetip sharks deep underwater?

Here you will witness the world's most bizarre and terrifying encounters between man and beast: the cougar that can clear an eight-foot fence with a fully grown man in its jaws; the tapeworm that grows to...

In this moving account of his work with chimpanzees, Eugene Cussons – host of Animal Planet's Escape to Chimp Eden and director at Jane Goodall Institute's Chimp Eden Sanctuary – tells a story of devotion, survival and renewal.

This book celebrates our amazing bird varieties, from lyrebirds with their superb ability to mimic sounds, to strange flightless birds and dazzling parrots. Unrivalled in scope, this major title will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in Australia's birds.

The introductory section explores bird anatomy and behaviour, taking an in-depth look at topics such as wing structure, flight, feeding...