17 best-selling science books like Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez

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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

By: Barry Lopez

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar…

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1. The Snow Leopard

By: Peter Matthiessen

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

2. No Nature: New and Selected Poems

By: Gary Snyder

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."… read more

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3. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

By: David Abram

4.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous--hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles T… read more

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4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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5. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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6. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
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7. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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8. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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9. Orwell's Roses

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • essays
"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

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10. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

11. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

12. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

13. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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14. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

15. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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16. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

Similar categories in Ben Rawlence's The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth book and Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry  Lopez

17. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

By: Barry Lopez

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

18. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

By: Elizabeth Rush

4.18

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson

19. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

20. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

By: Elizabeth Rush

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."

-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

21. The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods

By: Greg King

4.16

Format: None pages, None

Redwoods activist and journalist Greg King's THE GHOST FOREST: RACISTS, RADICALS, AND REAL ESTATE I… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science

16 must-read audiobook books like Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

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6 best-selling classics books like The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Transform Your Habits

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

Edward Abbey

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

4.88

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