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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Earthsea
The first book of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power ...Show more
A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The\Earthsea Quartet Ser.
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient ...Show more
Air - Nature and Culture by Peter Adey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth--from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technolog ...Show more
Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: New Agriculture New Earth
This ground-breaking book will change the way we think of, farm and grow food. Author and radical farmer Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is a story of how a grassroots revolution - a true underground insurgen ...Show more
Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprise ...Show more
Clouds: Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
$37.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth
Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history; their fleeting magnificence and endless variety have inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds and the ever-changing patterns they create have long symbolized the restlessness and unpredictability of nature. Life witho ...Show more
Coal: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the black seam. Coal has influenced significantly the course of human history and our social and natural environ ...Show more
Comets: Nature and Culture by Andrew Karam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth
Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousand years ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinced the Romans that Julius Caesar was a god. In 1066, Halley's Comet was interpreted as a foreshadowing of the death of Harold the Second in the Battle of ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K Le Guin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Earthsea | Reading Level: very good
A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage S ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu) by Ursula K. Le Guin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Earthsea
One of the classic works of fantasy by renowned writer of the genre, Ursula K. Le Guin. As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to learn the true way of magic. A natural magician, Ged becomes an Archmage and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape from the ...Show more
Fire: Nature and Culture by Stephen J. Pyne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth S.
Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal. Whether huntin ...Show more
Glacier - Nature and Culture by Peter G. Knight
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
As major actors in the unfolding drama of climate change, glaciers feature prominently in Earth's past and its future. Wherever on the planet we live, glaciers affect each of us directly. They control the atmospheric and ocean circulations that drive the weather; they supply drinking and irrigation wate ...Show more