Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
By: Gavin Francis
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis journeys into our collective fascination with islands. He blends st…
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1. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.26
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europ… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"A shadow appeared on the awnings further up the land, gliding across each rectangle of canvas towards my table, sinking in the sag, rising again at the edge, and moving on to the next with a flicker …"-Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- travel
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
By: Craig Brown , None
3.34
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
4. Atlas of Remote Islands
By: Christine Lo , Judith Schalansky
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- geography
- maps
5. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
By: Wallace J. Nichols , Celine Cousteau
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
This is your brain on water. There's something about water that attracts and fascinates us. No wond… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
6. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
By: John O'Donohue
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
Similar categories in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard book and Gavin Francis's Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
- memoir
- travel
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
8. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
By: Alastair Bonnett
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A tour of the world's hidden geographies--from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts--and a stu… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- geography
- maps
9. The Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more
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- philosophy
- nature
10. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
By: Eric Weiner
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, … read more
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11. 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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12. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
By: Henry Beston , Robert Finch
4.00
Format: 176 pages,
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity,… read more
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13. Dans les forêts de Sibérie
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Sylvain Tesson, pour rassasier son besoin de liberte, a trouve une solution radicale et vieille com… read more
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14. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
15. Mr Palomar
By: Italo Calvino
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more
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16. Les Strates
By: Pénélope Bagieu
4.24
Format: 144 pages, Leather Bound
L'autrice de Culottées, Eisner Award 2019, livre ici son premier récit autobiographique, où histoir… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. 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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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- 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
18. Summerwater
By: Sarah Moss
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more
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- 21st century
19. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
20. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
21. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
22. North Korea Journal
By: Michael Palin
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal
23. Civilizations
By: Laurent Binet
3.67
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Vers l’an mille : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud.1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amériqu… read more
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24. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"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
25. Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
By: Ella Risbridger
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking There are lots of ways to start a sto… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"There’s also some really solid kneading to be done here, which is the best cure for a troubled heart: hands in the dough, window wide, something jaunty on the radio."-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"And I was scared, and I was stuck. It was ridiculous, laughable: sometimes anxiety is. Often it is. It doesn't make it any less real, or any less difficult to manage."-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"In my life I have had several moments of total clarity. Not revelations, necessarily, but times and places where I have, fleetingly, felt that everything in the world was more real than usual, and th…"-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly…"-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
26. Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
By: Gavin Francis
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis journeys into our collective fascination with islands. He blends st… read more
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- nature
- history
- memoir
- travel
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- geography
- maps
27. The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
By: Philippa Perry
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, p… read more
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- nonfiction
"Manche Menschen verwechseln Liebe mit etwas, das einen überkommt, dabei ist sie viel mehr. Liebe äußert sich in dem, was wir tun. Liebe ist nicht passiv."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Wir alle sind verletzliche Wesen, die lernen müssen, dass man stärker ist, wenn man zu seiner Verletzlichkeit steht, als wenn sich hinter einer Fassade falscher Stärke versteckt."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Manchmal bedeutet authentisch zu sein, dass wir nicht so nett sind, wie wir gern wären. Wenn Ihnen das ein schlechtes Gewissen bereitet, denken Sie daran: Ein schlechtes Gewissen ist besser als Groll."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Be mindful of the language you use with others. A good way to start is to speak in 'I' statements, which define your own experience, and not 'you' statements, which are a judgement on the other person"-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
28. Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
By: Markiyan Kamysh
3.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Trainspotting meets A Field Guide to Getting Lost in this rare portrait of the dystopian reality th… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
29. A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
30. Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light
By: Caroline Eden
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the tale of a journey between three great cities -– Odessa, built on a dream by Catherine … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
31. Heat of the Moment
By: Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
______ AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST '[One of] the wonder women of our emergency services' Glamour… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
