Two Fish on One Hook: A Transformative Reading of Thoreau's Walden by Raymond Tripp
$12.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Reading Level: very good
Here is a book about Walden that takes Thoreau on his own terms. Two Fish on One Hook is a transcendental study of Thoreau's transcendental work. It offers us the task of doing as Thoreau does, exhorting us to follow the patterns Thoreau sets up in Walden and to approach his work as "an act of communica ...Show more
Vireya Rhododendrons by J. Clyde Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good
Very good softcover copies. Good introduction to Vireyas with useful explanations of cultivation and propagation techniques.
The Future History Of The Arctic by Charles Emmerson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Arctic | Reading Level: very good
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain s ...Show more
Seeds of Wealth - Four Plants that Made Men Rich by Henry Hobhouse
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A highly original interpretation of a wide span of global history through vitally important plants. Henry Hobhouse was the first to recognise plants as a causal factor in history in his Seeds of Wealth. In this new book, he examines four plants: rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, each of w ...Show more
Wildflowers Across America by Claudia Alta Johnson; Carlton B. Lees; Lady Bird Johnson; Les Line (Photographer)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
With page after page of breathtaking photographs, this highly praised volume is a veritable bouquet of hundreds of America's favorite wildflowers, arranged by region. In the text Lady Bird Johnson, in collaboration with an eminent horticulturist, makes a compelling argument for the preservation and prol ...Show more
Quirky Gardens by Jennifer Isaacs
$12.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
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The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of letters between Two Eccentric Gourmet Gardeners by Roger Phillips; Leslie Land
$14.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Flippers Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Roger Phillips first met American cookery writer Leslie Land at a mushrooming foray in upstate New York in the summer of 1989. They discovered shared passions for gardening, food and life. Over two years their friendship grew as they exchanged letters. Roger regales Leslie with stories from the three-ac ...Show more
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990 by Gervase Jackson-Stops
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
The Royal Horticultural Society: A History 1804-2004 by Brent Elliott
$55.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
This title is an official history of the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings to the present day.
A New Zealand Handbook of Bulbs and Perennials by Hugh Redgrove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good