The frightening but true try of a giant rogue crocodile that attacked over 15 boats on a N.T river during the 1970s.

Saving Private Sarbi The true story of Australia's canine war hero

Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable.Thirteen months after Australia's most famous canine warrior went missing in action following an historic battle between the elite SAS and the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008, she was found by an American Special Forces officer patrolling a village in a region known to be a Taliban stronghold. Against all odds, Sarbi had survived her injuries, the enemy's weapons, a bitter winter, one brutal summer and the harsh unforgiving landscape on her own. She was the miracle dog of Tarin Kot.Sarbi's story, and those of the other brave Australian Army dogs in Afghanistan, will resonate with anyone who has known the unconditional love of man's best friend, and understands the rewards of unbidden loyalty, trust and devotion. It will appeal to all those who appreciate the selflessness of serving your country and the inherent dangers of putting your life on the line for others in a war zone. And it will strike a chord with anyone who has experienced the magical connection with a dog.

Sophie Dog Overboard

When Jan and Dave Griffith's beloved cattle dog, Sophie, fell overboard from the family yacht during rough weather, they feared the worst. But Sophie, a true Aussie battler, wasn't going to give up that easily. She swam six miles through shark-infested waters to a remote Whitsunday island where she survived for five months before being miraculously reunited with her amazed owners. Sophie, a highly domesticated dog, had been living ferally - and surviving. Yet one glimpse of her owners when they were reunited was enough for the old Sophie to re-emerge.

This is an amazing, inspirational story of survival, loyalty and what binds animals and humans together.

Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater

This is a new and updated version of the very popular Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds and includes 64 new or extensively revised colour plates, incorporating all the new birds observed in Australia, including Tasmania and islands and territories since 1986.

Also included is a re-organisation of the guide into broad habitats - seabirds, shore birds, inland water birds and bush birds; updated common and scientific names, revised maps, and a new visual index to aid beginners in finding the most appropriate pages in the guide.

A must for serious naturalists in Australia, be they beginners or experts.

Graeme Gow.

An authoritative field guide to all Australian land snakes. Gow collected a huge variety of snakes throughout Australia. In this comprehensive study he has arranged the information on each species in a concise and easy form so that quick reference to distribution, description, size and habits can be made.

Handy pocket sized book. S/Cover, 140 pages.

A field guide by Angus Emmott & Steve Wilson.

The Snakes of Western Queensland Field Guide is an easy to use reference book for travellers, naturalists and locals alike. The technically correct and simply presented information in this 136 page handbook is a great way for either expert or lay person to get better acquainted with the snakes of the region. It's an excellent addition to the glovebox, bookshelf or library and includes over 100 vibrant, full-colour photographs

Snakes, Lizards and Croc's

Steve Wilson.

This fun, informative and colourful book introduces all of Australia's different types of lizards and snakes as well as turtles and crocodiles. It includes:

• full colour pictures of animals in their natural environment
• text full of interesting facts about their lifestyle
• index containing both common and scientific names
• glossary to explain new words

                                                                         Temporarily out of stock

Bert Brunet. 

A guide for people wishing to identify and understand Australian spiders. More than 100 of the most common spiders are described in detail. Illustrated with an identification guide, colour drawings and photographs, Spiderwatch is an easy-to-use and practical field manual. It contains advice on where to find spiders and how to draw, photograph and take notes on them as well as facts on anatomy and evolution. 176 pp.

Full of helpful advice about how to recognize and deal with (move, kill, or leave) the animals that share our homes and backyards.

Australian homes and backyards are abuzz with wildlife: possums in the roof, ants in the cupboards, frogs in the pond and spiders hanging from windows and racing across walls. There are ticks on the dog, fleas on the cat and nits in the children's hair. When the bandicoots are digging up the lawn, the cockatoos have peeled the flashing off the roof and a bird is trying to mate with the car window reach for Spineless, a useful little book that will help you identify the pests (and pals) that share your home and will show you how to cultivate the good guys while banishing those pesky or downright alarming house guests.

  The story of the Tasmanian Devil is a remarkable one - surprising, controversial, funny and tragic. Nor has it been told before. Few mammals have been so negatively named, but this book casts the Tasmanian Devil in a strikingly new light. Far from being a scavenging, ferocious oddity, it is a treasured and valuable wildlife species, and one that faces the threat of extinction. This is the first book published on the animal that has the distinction of being the world's largest marsupial carnivore, and it is packed with information that has either never been published or has only been found in scientific publications.

The tragic tale of the Tasmanian Tiger. An enchanting book that reveals all we know about this little-known animal. Anyone interested in the conservation of the diversity of life should read this story. Hardcover. 228 pp.

Mammals inhabit every corner of our vast continent, yet the great majority of species are seldom seen. The only clue to their presence might be a footprint left on a muddy track, a scat deposited on a rocky ledge, or bones scattered on a forest floor. Barbara Triggs provides all the information needed to identify mammals everywhere.

Up a Hollow Log     R M Winn

Master storyteller Ryle Winn learnt his craft in the backblocks, experimented with it in the public bar and honed it in between musters and sale yards. In this third collection of true tales, animals rather than people take centre stage – with a tip of the hat to Henry Lawson's much-loved story 'The Loaded Dog'. Meet a ute full of wayward working dogs, a pesky bush turkey determined to outsmart its landlady, a rogue circus elephant staking a claim on the road and an orphan pig with a message for the world.

You'll bust a gut laughing, you'll be left incredulous, you might even shed a tear or two. But most of all, you'll be glad you took the time to join Ryle Winn in celebrating man's best friend – and other creatures from the bush and beyond.

By Gerry Swan and Steve Wilson

This book is a broad introduction to Australia's diverse lizard fauna. It covers most groups of Australian lizards and includes general points on appearance, behaviour and ecology.

Hundreds of striking and beautiful photographs and illustrations throughout.

This book follows the recently published What Snake Is That?

By Matt Pagett

Have you ever wondered which animal produces the world's biggest poop? Well, here is the book that will solve all those debates and will answer that crucial question, "What shat that?".

Ideal for any nature lover or amateur biologist, "What Shat That?" is an original and authoritative survey of the substance that, like it or not, unites every living creature, from your pet dog to the giant African land snail. All of the major animal species are covered, together with some of the more wild and exotic species, and full-colour photographs reveal each type of poop in all its glory.

By Gerry Swan & Steve Wilson

The book covers all the groups of Australian snakes. Where identification features are of particular interest they are provided, and key pointers offer hints to general diagnostic aspects.

People are generally most interested in whether a snake is harmful, or what unusual habits it has, so within each family the genera are grouped together on the basis of how we relate to them, their ecology or other behavioural traits.

A magnificently illustrated, authoritative and entertaining compendium of the abundant and unique animals that live on the Australian continent today.

There is nothing to beat the extraordinary wildlife of Australia. Its colourful parrots, its venomous snakes, its abundance of hopping marsupials and the strange, egg-laying Platypus - these are just a few of the players in a story that began hundreds of millions of year ago.
Many members of Australia's wildlife live nowhere else on Earth. They are unique, the result of evolution on a continent that has been geographically isolated from the rest of the world for 38 million years. Wildlife of Australia is an account of how these animals have developed in response to changing climates and habitats. It describes their day-to-day habits, where they live, how they find partners and care for their young, and how they protect themselves and find food and shelter.
Superbly illustrated with over 550 colour photographs by renowned wildlife photographer Jiri Lochman, the book also contains a list of scientific names, good zoos and wildlife parks, useful websites and books, and a comprehensive glossary. Wildlife of Australia reveals the fascinating worlds of the animals that live all around us on this ancient land but remain largely unnoticed.