Steve Parish

Calendars, natural history books, Australiana books, and children's books are what Steve Parish is famous for, and we have a fantastic range of wildlife, floral and landscape titles to choose from. We also stock Australian-themed greetings and gifts, stationery and beautiful posters and prints featuring the work of iconic Australian photographer Steve Parish.

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A Wild Australia Guide

Bats are an amazing group of animals — they are the only mammals to have mastered true powered flight, yet they remain some of the...
Steve Parish, whose highly successful career as one of Australia's best-loved nature photographers spans 50 years, shares his specialist knowledge and love of photographing birds,...
Steve Parish, whose highly successful career as one of Australia's best-loved nature photographers spans 50 years, shares his specialist knowledge and love of flora photography...
Australia enjoys an abundance of unique wildlife and landscapes, from remarkable mammals and colourful birds to sensational wildflowers and awe-inspiring scenery. What better way to...
Fifty living macropod species inhabit the Australian mainland and the continent's adjacent islands. This Wild Australia Guide features every one of these delightful native mammals....
Spectacular colourful flying insects brighten up many natural surrounds. A sudden glint of red, green, blue and brown is a wild Australian experience — the...
Australia's beetles and bugs may be small - but if we look hard enough, they show us some of the most bizarre and fascinating lifestyles...
Australia is home to more than 2000 known species of spiders - and it is estimated that four times that number actually exist in this...
Australia is home to more than 840 species of reptiles that are contained within sixteen families - and we are still counting! Of these, the...
Australia is home to 191 snake species, and in no other region of the world are venomous snakes in such abundance. Australia's snakes can be...
Expert authors share their detailed knowledge on the secret life of Australia's frogs.

This practical Wild Australia Guide introduces Australia's various frog and toad families, informs...
Research into Australia's freshwater turtles has progressed greatly in the last fifteen years. A number of new species have been formally described, thus increasing our...
From the unusual mating systems of weedfish that give birth to live young, to the man-killing reputation of the awe-inspiring Great Barracuda, Australian marine fish...
Spectacularly beautiful or barely noticeable — Australian marine life is an astonishing world of colour and complexity. From the death-dealing jab of a Textile Cone...
Australia enjoys a vast array of unique and fascinating plants that are not only vital to our ecosystem but provide a spectacular environment. This Wild...
Australia is the only country in the world where representatives of the three major mammal types (placentals, marsupials and monotremes) are found.

The country's sustained...
This great southern continent has been separated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. In that time, its flora and fauna have...
Raucous screeching and a sudden low-flying glint of red, green and blue is a wild Australian experience: a passing squadron of parrots. But which species...
The evolutionary perfection of sharks and rays in their natural habitat is truly mesmerising. As snorkel and scuba access to our oceans improves, more and...
Australians are lucky to live alongside more than half of the world's marine mammal species.

This practical Wild Australia Guide "takes the reader underwater" -...
Australia is fortunate to offer the fish enthusiast a wide variety of species, which live in a diversity of environments and display fascinating survival...
Australia enjoys an abundance of unique wildlife — from inspiring marine mammals to colourful birds, countless species of insects and the well-known and well-loved favourites...
Australia houses a spectacular range of landscapes. From the aquamarine waters of coral reefs to the deep iron-red desert dunes. And from alpine gums in...
Many visitors to Australia feel slightly nervous at the thought of a continent teeming with incredibly "dangerous" and "ferocious" animals. Our fascination with folklore and...