Environment 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

The author, an autistic teenager, explores the natural world. 223 pages with 7 illustrations and endpaper illustration. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition.

The author, a farmer and scientist, shares how we can grow the courage to protect our land and save our food, and our future. 291 pages. Book in as new condition.

The author follows the story of Peter Nicholson who as a fifteen year old crawled into wombat burrows and then embarks on his own journey to uncover the true nature of wombats. 229 pages with 8 pages of colour photographs and black and white illustrations throughout. Book in vey good condition.

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.

Signed by the author the book is about a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional sailing vessel and a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman whose wanderings in the archipelago changed the way we see the natural world - a unique blend of travel, biography, ecology, history and adventure. 267 pages with 16 pages of… Read more about this item

Daintree is one of the last great tropical rainforests in the world and where it meets the sea two of Australia's living wonders merge the other being the sand and coral of the Great Barrier Reef. 256 pages with numerous colour photographs throughout. Book in very good condition with some minor water damage. Dust jacket in good condition with three… Read more about this item

2 volume set ; World Heritage Areas. Flora and Fauna. Both 400 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Both in near fine if not as new condition. These are heavy large books over 5kg therefore 2 post bags at $12,50 each = $25 postage, I will pay $10, you $15. If you are in Adelaide I will deliver. Contact me.

20,000 BC was the peak of the last Ice Age and then global warming changed history ushering in a changed life style from hunter-gatherer to farmers and permanent villages and towns - civilization. 622 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs, 4 maps, 8 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition despite number of small ticks… Read more about this item

The story of the origins and evolution of humankind, set against a backdrop of dramatic climate change. 199 pages. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on title page, stamps on back endpaper, and reference inside back cover. Dust jacket in good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back, ?water creases on back.

The grand narrative of bushfires in Australia, the most fire prone land on Earth - stories of heroism, stupidity, political incompetence, and environmental vandalism. 420 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside back cover, on spine and back cover.

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 first national oral history collection of Australian landscape memory and folklore recorded as a crucial cultural heritage. 279 pages with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition with previous owners name and a date on first page and very minor marks to top leading edge. Dust jacket/ slipcase in near fine condition with very minor… Read more about this item

The establishment of national parks and associated reserves in the emerging history of the State has provided a significant resource for future generations and this guide is a recognition the best this state and in most cases other areas elsewhere can offer. 232 pages with maps and colour photographs throughout. Book in very good+ condition.

How soil is formed, its over use by early civilizations, its misuse in modern times, and the need to nurture it before it is too late. 321 pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps on back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back

An up to date overview of the central theories and major discoveries in earth sciences on how the Earth works and is capable of supporting life. and how scientists have learnt to read nature's subtle clues and interpret Earth's ever evolving narrative. 335 pages with numerous colour photographs and figures and black and white figures. Book in near fine condition… Read more about this item

How such a seemingly fragile world formed and developed - astonishing leaps and near catastrophes that have occurred along the way, intermingled with inexorable but slow change - the extraordinary story of the Earth's evolution. 409 pages with numerous figures throughout. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps on front and back endpapers and reference inside back cover.… Read more about this item

Subjects range from immediate practical concerns - using maps, coping with changing weather, understanding cities - to broader issues such as the functions of political boundaries, and the scramble for control of the oceans. 336 pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps om endpapers and title page and sticker on back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+… Read more about this item

What is climate and what determines it, and its effects on man and history - the inter-relationship of man's evolution and climatic change, the heavy premium of man's adaptability,, and how climate influenced racial differences. 444 pages with endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in good+ condition in clear wrapper with fading to spine and some wear… Read more about this item