MATTHEW FLINDERS & HIS SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN ...... Wege, Juliet; George, Alex; et al, eds

This sumptuously illustrated and beautifully produced volume contains accounts of Matthew Flinders' remarkable expedition to Australia in HMS Investigator in 1801 - 1805; the lives of principal people of the expedition; their work in charting the coast and discovering plants and animals; and how their journals and collections were studied in England.

ISBN: 1 920843 20 5 HC 192pp 1120g                                  RRP: $59.95

CORAL REEFS: NATURE'S WONDERS ...... Deas, Walt & Jean
This field guide provides a guide to coral reef biology and ecology with beautiful photos of the better known corals, both soft and hard corals, why the reefs are endangered and what can be done to conserve them. A must for divers and conservationists. Colour photographs.

ISBN: 1 920843 18 3 Pb 298pp 820g                                       RRP: $39.95

THE CAT HAS NINE LIVES ...... Robins, Fred
A fictionalised semi-biographical account of life on the Catalina flying boats operating low level minelaying and Air-Sea rescue missions in Asia and the south west Pacific during WW II, by a noted Western Australian Catalina pilot.

ISBN: 1 875317 12 0 Pb 189pp 395g                                         RRP: $19.95

Handbook of Birds of Western Australia, Volumes I and II
by Ron Johnstone & Glen Storr
Artists - Martin Thompson, Trish Wright and John Darnell

With magnificient colour plates of birds and eggs, distribution maps,description of habitat, breeding and behaviour, line drawings of nests, birds, feathers, head and eye detail, these two volumes are the definitive work on Western Australian and Christmas Island birds.

Volume II - Passerines Pitta Bird to Goldfinch
529pp, 38 colour bird plates, 28 colour egg plates. 209 text figures,
109 maps.
ISBN 1 920843 11 6                                                              RRP: $130.00