Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years…
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1. The Pastures of Heaven
By: John Steinbeck
4.08
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more
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2. Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)
By: Robin Hobb
3.55
Format: 691 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The third book in The Soldier Son Trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Farseer, Liveship Tra… read more
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- adventure
"Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?"-Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)
"As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife…"-Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)
3. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
4. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
5. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
6. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
7. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
8. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
9. 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
By: Annabel Streets
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walkin… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
10. Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
By: Nick Hunt
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be ther… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
11. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
12. Running The World: 196 marathons in 196 countries, one record-breaking adventure
By: Nick Butter
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
'Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.' Mark Beaumont--- In 2019, Nick Butter became the f… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
14. Sea Bean
By: Sally Huband
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland When a seed falls … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
15. The Phoenix Ballroom
By: Ruth Hogan
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring … read more
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16. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
17. 50 Shades of the USA: One woman's 11,000 mile cycling adventure through every state of America
By: Anna McNuff
4.52
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
"Just then, a train of thought rumbled into motion and a soft voice asked me a question. It was alm… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
18. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You
By: Nick Hayes
4.35
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
19. Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
20. The Life Impossible
By: Matt Haig
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more
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"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible
"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible
21. Kent State: An American Tragedy
By: Brian VanDeMark
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illu… read more
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