Nature in art

Be amazed at how easily you can paint beautiful flowers in simple steps.

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

New Naturalist Wildfowl provides a much-anticipated overview of the fascinating birds that have become icons of our diminishing wilderness areas.

The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life.

'She's a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.

Explore a Beautiful Woodland Realm with 30 Charming ProjectsIllustrator Jane Carkill invites you into her storybook world with this collection of beginner-friendly art tutorials!

Las flores constituyen el elemento fundamental en la mayoría de las representaciones pictóricas de naturalezas muertas.

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

Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas and has been a bestseller since first publication.

Audubon's ambitious project to paint all the birds of North America resulted in a work that represents one of the greatest advances in ornithology.

A richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance EuropeArt played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Painting techniques and guidance on important bird features, colors and anatomy for beginner and experienced artists.

Declared ';the best survival book in a decade' by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.

Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Marinemaler des 19.

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023'Eye-opening and full of surprises .

A treasure for all lovers of wild plants - Wild Orchids of Britain provides a detailed account of all our orchid species, varieties and hybrids, and has a useful key to identification.

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful animal forms, detailed faces, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animalsis amust-have visual reference book for student artists, scientific illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills.

Best Books of 2018The Guardian [a]fascinating and indispensable book.

An introduction to botanical illustration in ten step-by-step lessons.

This book showcases the best of the collection's floral-inspired embroideries, dating from the 17th century to the present day.

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle beckon curious beachcombers with miles of wave-swept Gulf coastline.

A compact, full-color companion guide to photographing San Francisco!

Journey to the planet's most magnificent places and see the world as you've never seen it before through the lenses of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher.

Drawing on the fields of design history and the history of science, this book examines the important role that botanical science played in the emergence of Victorian design theory.

Capture the Vibrant Colors of the Jungle with 25 No-Sketch ProjectsGrab your paintbrush, smock and explorer's hat and get ready to paint your way through the jungle!

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.

Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972.

Ten graded lessons to tackle beautiful colour in stunning botanical compositions.

An idiosyncratic, richly illustrated guide to Britain's rivers, seas and shores, for everyone who loves the water and the natural world - a Norwegian Wood for Britain's watersThis is a book for those who want to understand better how the waters surrounding us affect our daily lives, how it imperceptibly but crucially shapes our actions, and has shaped our landscape for millenia.

From domestic cats and dogs to wild lions and giraffes, best-selling artist and author Jean Haines shows the reader how to bring a vitality of life to their animal artwork.

An up-to-date synthesis of comparative diving physiology research, illustrating the features of dive performance and its biomedical and ecological relevance.

Few parts of our British islands can compare with our sea coasts as plant hunting ground.

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous artA distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America.

Let the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew e-guide you around the beautiful and mysterious world that is the plant kingdom.

Workable solutions, and stories of success, for saving the ocean environment.

Gustave Doré, der Meister des Lichts und der Schatten, hat mit seinen atemberaubenden Illustrationen Klassiker der Weltliteratur wie Dantes Göttliche Komödie, Miltons Paradise Lost und Cervantes' Don Quijote auf unvergessliche Weise zum Leben erweckt.

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

Insect Natural History introduces the reader to some of the latest discoveries and ideas about British Insects.

The northeastern seaboard of North America, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation.

Si l’animal fut tour à tour représenté par les peintres pour sa fonction symbolique, cathartique ou allégorique, il fut aussi et surtout, et ce dès les peintures rupestres, peint pour lui-même, en tant que Nature.

Japanese gardens are found throughout the world todaytheir unique forms now considered a universal art form.

For this stunning new volume, photographer William Hubbell has turned his lens toward New England's ubiquitous stone walls.

This easy-to-understand guide shows how to overcome technical limitations and learn to see horses in a new light, fine-tuning observation skills, and discovering how to take best advantage of photo opportunities.

The beauty and spirit of coastal landscapes and waterways captured and celebrated in artPainting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of West Fraser, one of the nation's most respected painters of representational art.

Throughout time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

Another volume in the widely-read New Naturalist series, this book is an in-depth study of the natural developments and history of Galloway and surrounding areas.

Explore the deserts, mountains and souks of the Middle East, with best-selling author and artist David Bellamy.