Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f…
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1. Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons
By: Gerald Durrell
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Durrell sails to Mauritius, home of the dodo bird, to observe the remaining wildlife and to preserv… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
2. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
3. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By: William McDonough , Michael Braungart
4.09
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to min… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- environment
- science
"When you talk about “saving the planet"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about “saving"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
4. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
By: George Monbiot
4.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
5. Bee Quest
By: Dave Goulson
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A hunt for the most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from the Salisbury plains to the Sussex hedgero… read more
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6. A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
By: Dave Goulson
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
A conservationist's deeply personal and fascinating reflection on owning and revitalizing a farm in… read more
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7. 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
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- audiobook
- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
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8. 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
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- audiobook
- ecology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
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"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
9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
10. 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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- audiobook
- ecology
- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
11. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
12. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
13. 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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- audiobook
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
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- science
"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
14. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
15. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
16. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
17. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
By: Philip D'Anieri
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it ev… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
18. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
19. Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land
By: Andrew Painting
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. H… read more
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- science
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
20. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- animals
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- science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
21. The Night She Lied
By: Lucy Dawson
3.57
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Every family has secrets. Would you kill to keep yours? It’s midnight in the hospital when Jude … read more
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22. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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- ecology
- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- nature
- science
23. From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
By: Rob Hopkins
4.31
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinkin… read more
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- environment
- nature
- audiobook
24. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- nature
- science
25. The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
By: Dave Goulson
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of sm… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still r…"-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
"We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disa…"-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
26. Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.57
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- nature
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27. The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
By: Simon Barnes
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
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28. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
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- ecology
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29. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
By: Isabella Tree
4.55
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
30. One Thousand Shades of Green: A Year in Search of Britain's Wild Plants
By: Mike Dilger
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mike Dilger's nationwide quest to find 1,000 wild plant species in a single year. For most of 20… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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31. Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places
By: Julian Hoffman
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and anim… read more
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- conservation
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