10 Top nature books like Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez

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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

By: Jessica Hernandez

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off…

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1. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

By: None

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of fed… read more

Similar categories in None's As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice

2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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3. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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4. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • audiobook
Cover of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben  Goldfarb

5. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • science
  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."

-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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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

Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • science
  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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8. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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9. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • science
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10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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11. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Maynard's Rehearsals for Living book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • indigenous
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12. An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

By: Kyle T. Mays

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our count… read more

Similar categories in Kyle T. Mays's An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History) book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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13. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

Similar categories in Dina Gilio-Whitaker's As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre’vell Anderson

14. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

By: Tre’vell Anderson

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-mom… read more

Similar categories in Tre’vell Anderson's We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation

15. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

By: The Red Nation

4.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasse… read more

Similar categories in The Red Nation's The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
"Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life."

-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

"The critical infrastructure of Indigenous worlds is, fundamentally, about responsibility and being a good relative. But our responsibilities do not happen only in the realm of political transformatio…"

-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

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16. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • audiobook
Cover of Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)

17. Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourish… read more

Similar categories in Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)'s Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • ecology
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • nature
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18. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

By: Jessica Hernandez

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • science
  • ecology
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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20. Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i

By: Candace Fujikane

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping… read more

Similar categories in Candace Fujikane's Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray

21. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet book and Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

11 Top audiobook books like Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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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8 Best nature books like As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Transform Your Habits

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

Carolyn Finney

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Leah Thomas

4.15

Transform Your Habits

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Erosion: Essays of Undoing

Terry Tempest Williams

4.24

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