Animals

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....

Collected together for the very first time, this is the complete series one and two of Life Stories, written and presented by Sir David Attenborough....

This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....

In this mesmerizing debut, award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant....

In seven mind-bending and hilarious chapters, Gregg highlights features seemingly unique to humans—our use of language, our rationality, our moral systems, our so-called sophisticated consciousness—and compares them to our animal brethren....

Sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth....

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden.... 

Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet....

Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection. Lopez's classic, careful study has won praise from a wide range of reviewers and improved the way books on wild animals are written....

Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorkshire farm....

Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world....

In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book's first publication, David Attenborough has revised Life on Earth. This special anniversary edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic....

In The Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen describes how a rebellious girl from Huddersfield, who always wanted to be a shepherdess, achieved her dreams....

Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can! The answers will surprise and delight you....

In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales....

Emma Gray was just 23 when she moved to an isolated farm in Northumberland, becoming Britain's youngest solo shepherdess. In the seasons that followed, Emma fell in love with its rolling fields, sycamore trees and sturdy farmhouse, where she tended her sheep and trained her dogs....

In this fascinating book from the New York Times best-selling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures – the butterfly – shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives.... 

The second volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small....

A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning....

In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife....