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Zoo Quest eBook Series

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  • Zoo Quest to Guyana

    by David Attenborough ...
    Series series Zoo Quest
    Zoo Quest to Guyana tells the story of the ground-breaking BBC-London Zoo expedition to then-British Guiana. David Attenborough describes a country of broad, flat savannahs, swift creeks, and marshy coastal districts as well as the swampy remote indigenous forest reserve of the Rupununi. During his visit, Attenborough encounters sloths, manatees, macaws, hummingbirds, reptiles such as snakes and ... Read more

    $18.84 CAD

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  • Adventures of a Young Naturalist

    SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

    by Sir David Attenborough ...
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DARA McANULTYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise' Daily Express'A marvellous book . . . unputdownable . . . utterly engaging' Daily TelegraphIn 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Zoo in My Luggage

    by Gerald Durrell ...
    The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect 'plenty beef.' Their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home, with Cholmondely the chimpanzee, Bug-Eye the bush-baby, and other founder members... and nowhere to put them ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Into the Heart of Borneo

    by Redmond O'Hanlon ...
    ‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95° (in the shade) jungle of creeping, crawling, biting things. O’Hanlon could also rely ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Aye-Aye and I

    by Gerald Durrell ...
    'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes . . . it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life . . . one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet.'The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar is home to woodlice the size of golf balls, moths the size ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lost World Of The Kalahari

    With 'The Great and the Little Memory'

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Encounters with Animals

    by Gerald Durrell ...
    'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals.Moving from the West Coast ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Silent Footsteps

    by Sally Henderson ...
    When an elephant saved Sally Henderson's life in Botswana, it was to change her irrevocably. A passion to conserve this majestic species was ignited, and in 1990 she left Australia to join an elephant research project in the wilds of Zimbabwe.What follows is a remarkable journey into the world of Africa's elephants, and a deeply personal memoir of one woman's awakening and the choices she makes to ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • The Girl Who Married a Lion

    and Other Tales from Africa

    by Alexander McCall Smith ...
    Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wild Life

    by Simon King ...
    Even as a very young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah, charged at by rhinos and elephants and defecated upon by a long list of birds and other animals may sound like hell to some. But these, along with countless other experiences alongside all things furry, scaly, slimy and feathery have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Mammoth Book of Predators

    by Alex MacCormick ...
    Series Book 396 - Mammoth Books
    Don't go into the woods today. . .If you're on a cruise, tramping through a forest or holidaying in an exotic location, you are constantly being watched - somewhere close by a creature is lurking, stalking and eyeing your every move. The variety and range of these potential predators is truly astonishing, from Asiatic wolves to rogue elephants, fire ants to sharks, snakes, crocodiles and grizzlies ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Dr. No

    by Ian Fleming ...
    It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right ... Read more

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