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100 Years of Petrol Power by John Nicholson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: TRANSPORT, TRADE AND TRAVEL
The fifth and final book in this series for upper primary schoolchildren shows how Australia entered the Age of Oil, becoming reliant on petrol and diesel to power cars, trucks, trains, tractors, ships, machinery and aeroplanes. It shows how the internal combustion engine superseded horse and steam powe ...Show more
Animal Architects by John Nicholson
$29.95 NZD
Category: Nature & animals - children
This well illustrated book shows how clever are the architects and engineers of the animal world. They make tunnels, weave waterproof homes, bore into wood and mould clay into skyscrapers or many chambered constructions. We also learn how animals adjust for temperature and comfort, make boltholes for ...Show more
Animal Architects by John Nicholson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Nature & animals - children
Paperback edition of this beautifully illustrated, prize-winning, non-fiction book about shells, nests, mounds, bowers, galleries, dens and lodges - all the remarkable and complex structures that animals around the world build to shelter themselves and their young. A wombat scoops and sweeps with powerf ...Show more
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