Search Results: Nature from Lems Bookshop

For 100 years wildlife films have taken us to places and shown us things we would never be able to see - the excitement, the strangeness, the danger of the wild. From black and white silent footage to the almost magical photography techniques seen today. 192 pages with numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

The author, a biologist, explains the techniques by which animals make their way, sometimes thousands of kilometers, from one habitat to another with none of the instruments considered essential to human navigation. 243 pages with 150 colour illustrations. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp, sticker, and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpaper and inside back cover. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with stickers on back.

Antarctica, a cold, white wonderland of ice fields, glaciers, and bare mountain peaks, its land surface a dry desert with meagre flora of mosses, lichens and algae but it is surrounded by the world's richest ocean - the feeding ground for petrels, skuas, gulls, terns, cormorants, penguins, seals and whales. 171 pages with over 200 colour photographs and artwork. Book in good+ condition with small split top section inside front and back cover, otherwise fine. Dust jacket in good condition with some pieces missing and tears front and back and wear to edges (see photo).

About 95% of animal species lack backbones. Each of these volumes gives a complete account of the various groups of animals it deals with consequently can be read by itself. Vol 1 Pages 1 - 204 with 64 pages of black and white photographs and drawings on most pages accompanying the text.Vol 2 Pages 205 - 401 with 64 pages of black and white photographs and drawings on most pages accompanying he text.The Index for both volumes is in Volume 2. Price is for the 2 volumes.Both volumes are in very good condition with previous owners name on first page, tanning and some wear to covers.

Translated by Daniela Coxon. An invaluable guide for the beginner and the confirmed aquarist - arranging an aquarium, heating and lighting, nourishment, species selection and care. 132 pages with 56 full page colour paintings. Book in good+ condition ex library with borrowing sleeve remnants on back endpaper and writing inside back cover, binding showing front and back but all intact, all plates fine. Dust jacket in good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine, some texta marks, and some knocks and dents to edges (see photo).

A culmination of the many books on Australia and Australians written by the author. 324 pages with 50 black and white photographs. Book in good+ condition with previous owners name and some numbers on contents page and tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with wear to edges, some chips and dents (see photo).

Part of To Know and Understand Australia series this book looks at some Australian animals and plants. 58 pages with 18 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with stapled pages, some foxing and general fading, previous owner's name on first page, sticker inside front cover along with booksellers sticker. Cover has edge wear, a tear to top spine, small part missing bottom spine and indent on front.

In March 1992 the authors sold their Sydney business to travel and photograph the remote and rugged regions of Australia. The photographs depict the landscape while the text explores some of the legends which shaped today's Australia - a journey of discovery. 180 pages with colour photographs on nearly all pages. Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor wear.

Published by Jacaranda Wiley. Over three quarters of Australia is regarded as the Outback. The author made many trips into this country and gives a photographic and written insight to Australia's outback. 134 pages with colour photographs on most pages and endpaper map. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition with previous owners name on title page

The vast central desert touches on all mainland states of Australia and comprise the major portion of South Australia, Western Australia and The Northern Territory. Although of enormous extent nowhere do the deserts become totally barren with sufficient rainfall from time to time to support surprisingly large populations of plants and animals if only for a brief time. 79 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout and endpaaper map. Book in near fine codition and dust jacket in very good condition with two minor tears top spine and some minor wear.

Signed and dated good wishes by the author the book transports the reader to the world of nature which swarms and lives about us- on land, in the air, the waters and the seas. The superb collection of illustrations forms a picture gallery of nature wonders to illuminate the author's fascinating narrative. 116 pages with 7 pages of colour and 25 pages of black and white plates. Book in very good condition with foxing on side edges and previous owners sticker on inside cover and general fading. Dust jacket in good condition with edge wear, some tears and chips and a 2cm piece missing from top spine area and small piece missing from top back and front inside jacket snipped but price still present.

First thirteen years of publication 1986 - 1998, quarterly magazine each year bound in blue boards except 1998 in special folder. All in fine condition with numerous colour photographs in each magazine. A separate special folder has maps/supplements. These are heavy items per year - two years per post bag so will need 7 bags at $12.70/bag = $89 but I will pay $29, you pay $60. However if you are in Adelaide I will deliver to you. Contact me.

2 volume set ; World Heritage Areas. Flora and Fauna. Both 400 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Both in near fine if not as new condition. These are heavy large books over 5kg therefore 2 post bags at $12,50 each = $25 postage, I will pay $10, you $15. If you are in Adelaide I will deliver. Contact me.

The first colour guide to the sea fishes of southern Australia describing one third of Australia's marine fish families which are shown in their natural habitat with identification as accurate as possible. 302 pages with almost 300 colour photographs. Book in very good condition ex library stamp and sticker on back endpaper together with remnants of lending sleave. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on back..

The habitats and habits of many of Australia's unique animals with a plea to protect and conserve these natural assets. 240 pages with 16 colour and 14 black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good+ condition.

The Australian seas marine fish south of 30 degrees south are identified, shown in their natural habitat with a distribution map. 302 pages with almost 300 colour photographs. Book in very good condition and would have been higher if not for wear and marks to cover (see photos). No dust jacket.

Signed by the author this book discusses Australian frogs in detail including tables cataloguing the form of frog spawn in each genus, their dietary studies, and the effect on frogs of herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and heavy metals. 220 pages with 48 colour plates, 21 tables and 64 figures. Book in as new condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition.

An introduction to the living plants and animals found in the Australian seashore zone. 87 pages with more than 50 illustrations in colour, 29 diagrams of animal structure and many monochromes. Book in very good condition with slight marking on leading edge.

Australia, a continent where everything is different - people, places, climate , plants, animals, land forms and history. 263 pages with 20 black and white photographs and endpapers map. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in good+ condition with minor chips and three tears on front (see photo).

People, places, climate, plants, animals, strange landforms and strange aspects of history combine to make even the familiar seem unique. 263 pages with 4 colour and 16 black and white photographs and endpaper map. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with a small tear top left and minor wear to some edges.