On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
By: Elizabeth Hennessy
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably lin…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. Lily and the Octopus
By: Steven Rowley
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life … read more
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"What’s wrong with Tuesdays?"-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I have to be better about living in the not knowing."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I always thought Peter Pan was death. An angel of death who came to collect children."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
3. Enchanted Islands
By: Allison Amend
3.76
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of a… read more
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4. Galápagos
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages,
Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more
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5. House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more
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6. Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin , Janet Browne , Michael Neve
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beaglesailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1… read more
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7. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more
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8. A Little Journey
By: Ray Bradbury
3.85
Format: 288 pages,
About the Story: A LITTLE JOURNEY (August 1951) marks Bradbury's final contribution to the editoria… read more
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9. Floreana
By: Margret Wittmer
4.03
Format: 325 pages,
A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos. A breath-taking firsthand account of Wittmer's successful at… read more
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10. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
By: Andreas Malm
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more
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11. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
By: Carl Sagan
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into… read more
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12. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
By: Mark Adams
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
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13. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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14. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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15. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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16. Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
By: Emily Pennington
3.18
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous … read more
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- nature
- audiobook
17. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
18. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
19. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
20. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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21. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- history
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
22. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- history
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
23. La Panthère des neiges
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
En 2018, Sylvain Tesson est invité par le photographe animalier Vincent Munier à observer aux confi… read more
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- animals
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24. Where Waters Meet
By: Zhang Ling
3.86
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more
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25. The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
By: Joshua Hammer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detec… read more
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- history
- animals
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26. On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
By: Elizabeth Hennessy
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably lin… read more
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- nonfiction
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27. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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28. Secret Life
By: Theo Ellsworth
3.93
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff V… read more
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29. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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30. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination
By: Julie Cruikshank
4.02
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling … read more
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- history
- environment
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31. Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire
By: Raffaello Pantucci
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into C… read more
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