Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jami…
Want to Read $ 12.99"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy as Hazel did the required. She showed the presenter Neil Oliver some prize finds, such as a polished Bronze Age pendant, but the producer wanted a retake. 'Can you emote more?' she asked Hazel. Then they went away."-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy as Hazel did the required. She showed the presenter Neil Oliver some prize finds, such as a polished Bronze Age pendant, but the producer wanted a retake. 'Can you emote more?' she asked Hazel. Then they went away."-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
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1. Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad--"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebri… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
- nature
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- travel
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
3. Tarka the Otter
By: Henry Williamson , None
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Tarka the otter pursues an active life, sometimes playful and sometimes dangerous, in the Devonshir… read more
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4. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
By: Olivia Laing
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. On… read more
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5. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
By: Annie Dillard
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more
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7. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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8. Union Street
By: Pat Barker
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found . Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's … read more
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9. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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10. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
By: Sarah Macdonald
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting im… read more
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11. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
By: Doreen Cunningham
3.92
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the … read more
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- nature
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- environment
12. 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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- history
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"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
13. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
14. 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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"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
15. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
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- nature
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
16. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
17. 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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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
- nature
18. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
19. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- scotland
20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. 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
22. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life
By: Jenny Tough
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
23. 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
24. 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
25. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country
By: Edward Parnell
3.95
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
26. Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jami… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- scotland
- essays
- archaeology
- environment
- nature
"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy …"-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
27. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- natural history
- nature
28. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline
By: Christian Lewis
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
30. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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31. A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
By: Martin Walker
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an arch… read more
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