Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
By: Charlie Gilmour
4.14
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In this moving, critically acclaimed memoir, a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged fath…
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1. Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
By: Sarah Moss
3.69
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there wh… read more
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- biography
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- nature
"Window weather. It’s not charming, or wimpish, but a state of mind in which a fairly serious hope, that winter is over, that life is returning, is lost. It’s the antithesis of Easter."-Sarah Moss, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
"we’re all enjoying thinking about how much where you come from shapes what you see when you leave. Home, I tell them, is the paper on which travel writes. Travel writers are always writing home."-Sarah Moss, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
"Foreigner, útlendingur. Ausländer. I have joined the Faculty of Foreign Languages. British people of my generation don't use that world, certainly not as casually as Icelanders. 'Foreigner' is a word…"-Sarah Moss, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
2. Shadows on the Rock
By: Willa Cather
4.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and … read more
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"The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"The Law is to protect property, and it thinks too much of property. A couple of brass pots, an old saddle, are reckoned worth more than a poor man’s life."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
3. Heart Spring Mountain
By: Robin MacArthur
3.33
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a… read more
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4. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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5. The South
By: Colm Tóibín
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Katherine Proctor who "flees husband, child and County Wexfo… read more
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6. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
7. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
By: Scott Weidensaul
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more
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- nature
- animals
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- birds
- environment
- audiobook
8. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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- birds
- animals
- nature
- audiobook
9. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
By: Carl Safina
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more
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- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
10. Oben Erde, unten Himmel
By: Milena Michiko Flašar
4.25
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
»Alleinstehend. Mit Hamster«, so beschreibt sie sich selbst. Suzu lebt in einer japanischen Großsta… read more
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- audiobook
11. On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."-Susan Orlean, On Animals
12. Honderd miljoen jaar en een dag
By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Een paleontologische expeditie midden in de bergen. Na het succes van Mijn koningin treedt Jean-Bap… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
13. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
14. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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- nature
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
15. Spring Rain
By: Marc Hamer
4.36
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about the rain, a boy, an angry dog and a gardener, and how some of them find peace… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, …"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mi…"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
16. 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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- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
17. Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
By: Charlie Gilmour
4.14
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In this moving, critically acclaimed memoir, a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged fath… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
18. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
By: Manjula Martin
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
19. Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
By: Julie Zickefoose
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus , the story of a sick baby bird nursed back t… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
"You could do worse than to spend your days staring at blue jays."-Julie Zickefoose, Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
"The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them."-Julie Zickefoose, Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
"The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know."-Julie Zickefoose, Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
20. Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild
By: Brad Orsted
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search fo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
21. A Better Second Half: Dial Back Your Age to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
By: Liz Earle
4.18
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
Live Feel Age Better.In A Better Second Half, Liz Earle shows us how to future-proof our health i… read more
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