A Field Guide to the Snakes of Australia is a fully comprehensive field guide to all 241 species and subspecies of snake found in Australia; covering file snakes, pythons, colubrids, natracids, elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids and blindsnakes.
Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues’ notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told – until now.
This revised and updated paperback edition includes Shanes final months and the response to his passing.
The map shows the sites of Perths many major landmarks and historical sites, lost and surviving. A comprehensive gazetteer on the reverse gives details of the many sites of interest, with a brief history and many illustrations. The map also includes an inset of Scone, place of coronation of many Scottish kings.
When Darran Rees first drove northward toward Transylvania he felt he was being transported back in time. These remarkable landscapes were like visions of the past with such odd beauty and majesty that betrayed little of their recent history.
A Naturalist’s Guide to the Dangerous Creatures of Australia is an easy-to-use introductory photographic guide to 280 species of dangerous creature commonly encountered in Australia. The species include terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, snakes and other reptiles, birds and mammals.
This easy-to-use introductory identification guide to 280 bird species in Australia, including the most commonly seen and rare endemic species, is perfect for resident and visitor alike.
John O'Connor (1913-2004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds.With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.
Throughout his major works, Leo Tolstoy argues that the central problem of the modern world is its delusional character. We have become delusional about the utility of science, the effects of music, the nature of love and the divine, and the inescapable reality of death. A Prophet of Modern Delusions: Tolstoy's Critique of Modernity explores ......
The Untold Stories of the Creation of Britain's National Theatre
A Sense of Theatre is an eye-witness account of the birth and subsequent triumph of one of the worlds most famous theatres. Since the iconic building opened in 1976 on Londons South Bank, the National Theatres deployment of extraordinary architecture and exemplary theatrical talent has drawn audiences worldwide. However, the 100-year dream of a ......
