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 …
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 that it doesn't become hypnotic or monotonous. It hold attention without dominating thought, freeing the mind to swim elsewhere."-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
"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 that it doesn't become hypnotic or monotonous. It hold attention without dominating thought, freeing the mind to swim elsewhere."-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
2. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- history
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
3. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
4. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
5. 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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- memoir
- travel
- 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
6. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
7. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
8. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
9. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
10. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
11. 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
- history
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- 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
12. Sea Bean
By: Sally Huband
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland When a seed falls … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
13. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
14. Cacophony of Bone
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
15. 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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- audiobook
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- 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
16. 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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- audiobook
- ecology
- history
- memoir
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
17. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
18. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain
By: Sophie Pavelle
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats th… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
19. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
20. One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate
By: Kate Bradbury
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Ka… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
21. Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World
By: Sadiq Khan
3.66
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
'A breath of fresh air' Observer 'Passionate and authentic' GQ'Refreshing and galvanising' Vogue'R… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
