Natural History Book Bundle
Dive into a world of wonder and insight with our limited-edition Natural History book bundle!
This book bundle is the perfect way to explore the wonders of the natural world from the comfort of your own home.
Each bundle contains four hand-picked books in our signature book wraps, a bar of Love Cocoa milk chocolate, a Willoughby Reading Notes notebook and our attractive bookmarks.
This makes a perfect way to treat yourself with some summer reading, or to treat a book-loving friend. This collection has been perfectly curated to spark awe and fascination.
In addition, for every book bundle we send, we'll donate one book to Book Aid, helping to spread the joy of reading. You can sit back, relax, and bask in the glow of giving!
What's included?
Otherlands by Thomas Halliday (RRP £10.99)
Award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own.
The Secret Network of Nature by Peter Wohlleben (RRP £10.99)
An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans. But it is these connections that maintain nature’s finely balanced equilibrium. Drawing on the latest scientific discoveries and decades of experience as a forester, Peter Wohlleben shows us how different animals, plants, rivers, rocks and weather systems cooperate, and what's at stake when these delicate systems are unbalanced.
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (RRP £12.99)
The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan (RRP £10.99)
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience.
In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively.
This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.
Love Cocoa Milk Chocolate 75g (RRP £4.99)
A Willoughby Book Club Reading Notes notebook
Willoughby Book Club Bookmarks