The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped …
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1. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
2. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
By: Jeff Lowenfels , Wayne Lewis
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Without this [Soil Food Web system of bacteria, fungi etc], most important nutrients would drain from soil. Instead, they are retained in the bodies of soil life. Here is the gardener's truth: when y…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound togeth…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
3. Walking Away
By: Simon Armitage
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
4. Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
By: Henry B. Kane , John J. Rowlands
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
5. Walking with Spring
By: Earl V. Shaffer
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Vol… read more
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6. The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
By: Mark Boyle
4.00
Format: None pages,
Imagine a year without spending any money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is … read more
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7. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more
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8. The Journey Into Yourself
By: Eckhart Tolle
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Audio CD
The Journey into Yourself by Eckhart Tolle is an eight CD, 10 hour presentation of a retreat given … read more
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9. The Man Who Quit Money
By: Joseph Campbell , Mark Sundeen , None , Ramakrishna , None , None
3.48
Format: 241 pages,
Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings--al… read more
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10. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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11. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
12. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
By: Eric Brende
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende… read more
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13. 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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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"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
14. 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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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"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
15. Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record Breaker
By: Mimi Anderson
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
When Mimi first started jogging on a treadmill as an unfit 36-year-old mother-of-three, she never i… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
16. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
By: Sharon Blackie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new book by the author of the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, empowering w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- environment
- nature
- technology
18. A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated
By: Kate Humble
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining hap… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
19. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
By: Lamorna Ash
4.03
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
20. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
21. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
22. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
23. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
24. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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- memoir
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
25. The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
By: Emma Mitchell
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, 'the grey slug' - for twenty-five … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
26. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline
By: Christian Lewis
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
27. The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
By: Sarah Beeny
4.37
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
An instant Sunday Times bestsellerJoin Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find he… read more
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28. Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another
By: Nancy Campbell
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
29. The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope
By: Jen Benson
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year… read more
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- nature
30. Up: My Life Journey to the Top of Everest
By: Ben Fogle
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mounta… read more
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- biography
- nature
- audiobook
31. Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
By: Ben Short
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head. … read more
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- memoir
- nature
