Nature in art

Animals and Artists discusses a selection of modern and contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of nonhuman animals, and that expose human viewers to animal otherness.

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts.

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs.

Amanda Hislop's Seascapes is a wonderful reference tool for all textile artists, whatever their skills level.

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time.

Dive in to this breathtaking read about the world's oceansExplore the last wilderness left on Earth, with an enhanced and updated edition of this exhaustive guide to the underwater world.

Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone will urge many to follow in the author's footsteps in search of the rich flora which make our chalk downs and limestone cliffs so fascinating to explore.

This definitive guide is an essential resource for Kansas birders of all kinds!

Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush before, Geoff Kersey shows you how to paint convincing seascapes in watercolour using just three brushes, three colours, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad.

With both the growing importance of integrating studies of air-sea interaction and the interest in the general problem of global warming, the appearance of the second edition of this popular text is especially welcome.

Polar Oceanography is an integrated synthesis of the biological, physical, geological, and chemical processes that occur in the polar oceans.

'This is botanical illustration at the highest level.

In 2019 poet-artist Gommie began walking the coastline of an England with nothing but a backpack, a tent and an unusually large collection of pens.

Stylish retro travel posters bring to mind summer holidays, happiness and fun.

The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures.

Renowned travel photographer Peter Guttman takes readers on an unforgettable journey across the high seas, exploring oceanic cultures, marine life, coastal landscapes, and nautical pastimes that will capture the imagination of every beach lover, sailor, surfer, and traveler.

Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact.

Showcases the work of twenty leading paleoartists who expertly bring these extinct animals to life in exquisite detail.

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population.

Seit der Antike wurden menschliche Physiognomien stets über ihre vermeintlichen Ähnlichkeiten mit Tieren kategorisiert.

Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them.

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made.

'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari.

An avid outdoorsman, Pringle began carving decoys in 1898 and in 1928 set himself the goal of producing the best rig of decoys in the world.

The Australasian region is home to the greatest diversity of cephalopods — squid, cuttlefish, octopuses — in the world.

In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this book—winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category—reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own Winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists  Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back.

Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms.

This complete beginner Aos guide to painting trees and woodlands is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time.

This definitive guide is an essential resource for Kansas birders of all kinds!

TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies.

Explore the depths of sea magickand learn to harness its powerthrough ocean-related myths, deities, weather patterns, and more.

Many fishermen will acknowledge that the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are the world's most intriguing, beautiful and noble fish.

A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experienceBy turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature-and with one another.

'An ever-dependable showcase for the best images of Britain.

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works.

An exploration into Montreal's Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada's most outstanding artists.

An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world.

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach dunes.

Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration.

Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance.

A beautiful survey of the work of the members of the internationally respected Royal Watercolour Society, representing the finest contemporary watercolour painting in Britain today.

Blumen sind das zentrale Objekt einer Vielzahl von Stillleben in der Malerei.

'See the UK at its most earth-shatteringly beautiful' The Mail on Sunday'Britain at its best' The Telegraph From rural countryside to striking urban cityscapes, discover the best of British landscapes from the latest edition of the Landscape Photography of the Year competition.

Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean.

This book is a magnificently illustrated volume that will help anglers, scientists, and nature lovers to identify and appreciate North American freshwater game fish.

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.

WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects.