Natural History from Lems Bookshop

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… Read more about this item

Why do people fear and hate and find certain animals repellent ? The author reasons that the fear of the unknown and feelings of disgust can be removed by learning about these creatures. 108 pages. Book in very good+ condition with date and reference bottom front endpaper. Dust jacket in good+ condition price clipped with small piece missing top front… Read more about this item

The author was the first person to walk the Flinders Ranges from end to end, Crystal Brook to Mount Hopeless, and he gained an intimate knowledge of the Ranges.231 pages with 32 mainly colour plates, 9 maps, 2 Diagrams and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition Dust jacket in good+ condition with small piece missing top spine, small tear… Read more about this item

The development and behavior of the swan from from the first pip of the cygnet to the swan of old age as observed by the author and scientists around the world together with the natural history and cultural lore of the swan. Through history, myth, science, and camera the author examines these majestic birds with passion. 195 pages with over… Read more about this item

Twenty six exquisite watercolour portraits of birds both rare and familiar, accompanied by a brief descriptive text, a beautiful calligraphy letter and a detailed wood engraving. Pages not numbered but 56 pages. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear.

A study of the Flinders Ranges in paintings and text. Pages not numbered but 48 pages with 40 colour paintings and black and white illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear.

Volume 1- Hard Country, Hard Men and Last Horse Standing, 304 pages with 32 pages of illustrations mainly in colour. Volume 2- The Dig Tree and Back on the Wool Track, 296 pages with 38 pages of illustrations, 20 in colour. Books and dust jackets in near fine condition with small inscription on both front endpaper.

The Red Sea is home to a unique fauna due to its almost isolated position near the Indian Ocean and therefore is one of the most fascinating diving areas of the world. 321 pages with over 1,000 colour photographs of coral reef animals

In the Great Barrier Reef nature has allowed herself to run riot - a 1,250 miles of coral wonderland with its attendant animal life. 279 pages with 35 colour and 15 black and white Plates and front endpaper maps. Book in very good condition with some tanning. No dust jacket.

The book presents evidence that insects interacted as prey, as competitors for plant food, and vectors of dinosaur diseases - with the hypothesis that insects contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. 264 pages with 16 pages of colour and 39 figures throughout. Book in very good+ condition and would have been better but for split with binding showing… Read more about this item

Aims to assist the student and collector in identifying the molluscs preserved in South Australian rocks during the Quaternary Period. Five main chapters, Fossils; Molluscs; Pleistocene Period; Holocene Period; Terrestrial Molluscs. 327 pages with 82 figures, 23 colour plates, and 2 tables. Book in very good condition with first and last twenty five pages minor knock.

Lake Eyre flooded in 2009 and continued to fill for the next four years - defying natural history. The lake and its landscape as we have never seen before. 240 pages with around 200 pages of colour photographs. Book and dust jacket in as new condition. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

22 natural history adventure stories focusing on the heyday of endeavours between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - the life, career and passions of the scientist and their most striking adventures. 344 pages. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

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… Read more about this item

History on the broadest scale of life's evolution during 3.5 billion years told in a series of essays. 479 pages with illustrations throughout the text. Book in very good condition.

Everything you always wanted to know about nothing - winds provide the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing out energy and information, distributing both warmth and awareness, making something out of nothing. 384 pages. Book in good condition with previous owners name on first page and tanning and part booksellers sticker on back cover. . .

The 4 billion year journey of the Australian continent - its landscape, plants and animals and the arrival of man. 334 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition with previous owners small sticker on title and last page. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

The dramatic life of the most renowned volcano in history and its legacy of destruction - its ferocity only matched by the stubbornness of the survivors who continually rebuild new cities and villages on the ruins of the old. Today the volcano, the only active volcano in mainland Europe, sits only eight miles from Naples, a modern metropolis of two… Read more about this item

Translated from the Second German Edition by E A Vincent. A wealth of description and discussion of volcanic phenomena based largely on the author's own observations and his thinking about the fundamental causes and processes of volcanoes. 305 pages with 2 plates, 3 tables and 113 figures throughout the text. Book in near fine condition probably ex library as stamp… Read more about this item

The processes that bring about evolutionary changes in organisms and the principle factors that affect those processes. 418 pages with 36 figures and 38 tables in the text. Book in near fine condition with top corner of front endpaper cut off otherwise fine. No dust jacket.