My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
By: Lindsay McCrae
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor pe…
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1. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
"I could have sworn I saw some kind of mutual salute pass between Rich and the skua"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"The list total isn't important, but the birds themselves are important. Every bird you see. So the list is just a frivolous incentive for birding, but the birding itself is worthwhile."-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as …"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"We did not know that within twenty years Ted would be recognized as one of the greatest field ornithologists of all time, the ultimate authority on the ultimate bird continent. Mercifully, we did not…"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
2. Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
By: Simon Winchester
4.04
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its ro… read more
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- science
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
3. Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
By: Stacey O'Brien
4.10
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing,… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
"To that which you tame, you owe your life."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"Refusing to do your bidding is not the same as stupid."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"It was a lot like working at Hogwarts, except that, instead of receiving letters from our owls, we would find coughed-up owl pellets in our coffee mugs."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"Wesley was always outraged when he woke himself up with a screech in his sleep, and he blamed me. He would whip around to face me with an intense librarian’s stare as if I had broken a cardinal rule."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
4. The Penguin Lessons
By: Tom Michell
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name,… read more
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5. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
By: Susan Casey
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Waveand The Devil's Teeth, a breathta… read more
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6. From the Dust Returned
By: Ray Bradbury
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilara… read more
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7. Co gryzie weterynarza
By: Łukasz Łebek
3.87
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Dlaczego koci katar może być śmiertelny? Kto jest królem anoreksji wśród zwierząt? Kim są pacjenc… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Necrovet. Usługi weterynaryjno-nekromantyczne (Necrovet, #1)
By: Joanna W. Gajzler
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kto nie marzy o ucieczce na wieś – doskonałym leku na wypalenie i zniechęcenie życiem? Florka Ku… read more
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- audiobook
9. 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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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
10. Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
By: William McKeever
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel m… read more
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- science
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The salt in the sea is the same as the salt in our blood"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"Taking into account fair labor wages for fishermen and canning employees- and the damage inflicted to the ocean through overfishing and the ecological impact of the slow annihilation of sharks- a sin…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the grea…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"Society's lack of compassion for our fellow people and for animals leads to an ocean where sharks are dying by the millions and slaves are being abused by the thousands. The connection is basic: a di…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
11. 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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- science
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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
12. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- science
"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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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- audiobook
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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
14. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- science
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
15. 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
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- audiobook
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
16. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
17. The Arrest
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.15
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more
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- audiobook
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest
18. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
19. 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
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- audiobook
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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.
20. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
By: Sy Montgomery
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
21. Dark Lullaby
By: Polly Ho-Yen
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid's Tale, in Dark Lullaby a mother desperately tries to kee… read more
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- audiobook
22. Life and Otter Miracles
By: Hazel Prior
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage… read more
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- animals
23. The Hidden World of the Fox
By: Adele Brand
3.81
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she r… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
24. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
By: Nick Pyenson
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more
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- science
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
26. My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
By: Lindsay McCrae
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor pe… read more
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- biography
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- travel
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
27. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
28. In the Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
By: Sarah Dunant
3.78
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
`It is better to be feared than loved' - Niccolo Machiavelli In the bear pit of renaissance pol… read more
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- audiobook
"Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable."-Sarah Dunant, In the Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
"Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and over, moving so fast that sometimes you cannot even make out the spokes. It…"-Sarah Dunant, In the Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
29. The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
By: Naira de Gracia
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and… read more
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- memoir
- travel
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
30. Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
By: Caroline Paul
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
31. Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own
By: Margaret Winslow
3.60
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overwor… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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