Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
By: Helen Humphreys
3.90
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the science plot in Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium by Helen Humphreys , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
By: David George Haskell
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Treesis a powerful argument against the ways in… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David George Haskell's The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
2. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
3. Eva dorme
By: Francesca Melandri
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
E l'alba. Anche stanotte Eva non riesce a dormire. Apre la finestra: l'aria pungente e dolce dell'a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Francesca Melandri's Eva dorme book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
4. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.72
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1) book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- canada
- audiobook
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- audiobook
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
6. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- nature
- audiobook
7. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- memoir
- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
8. The Lost Spells
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Lost Spells book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells
9. Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
By: Wayne Johnston
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling n… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Wayne Johnston's Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
- audiobook
10. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- history
- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
11. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
12. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
Want to Read $ 10.82Similar categories in Helen Scales's The Brilliant Abyss book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
13. Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet
By: Marta McDowell
4.22
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanica… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Marta McDowell's Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- history
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
14. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
- audiobook
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
15. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Johan Eklöf's The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
16. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Wildful
By: Kengo Kurimoto
4.17
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of The Secret G… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kengo Kurimoto's Wildful book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- nature
18. Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
By: Helen Humphreys
3.90
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- history
- memoir
- canada
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- climate change
- nature
- audiobook
19. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
By: Jessica J. Lee
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- science
- memoir
- canada
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
20. A Convergence of Solitudes
By: Anita Anand
3.98
Format: None pages, ebook
A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Anita Anand's A Convergence of Solitudes book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- canada
21. This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
By: Angie Abdou
3.61
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage. Includes research on the shy child, pare… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Angie Abdou's This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir book and Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
- memoir
- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
