Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
By: Susan Hand Shetterly
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great sto…
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1. My Lover's Lover
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Lily slips on the sidewalk outside a London gallery and literally falls at the feet of a stran… read more
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2. Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm
By: Erin Byers Murray
1.50
Format: None pages,
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3. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
By: Bee Wilson , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. I… read more
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4. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
By: Josephine Tey
3.77
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more
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- audiobook
5. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
7. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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8. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
9. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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10. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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11. 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
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12. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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13. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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14. Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
By: Bren Smith
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER IACP Cookbook Award nomineeIn the face of apocalyptic climate change, a fo… read more
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"It's stunning how, under the weight of ecological collapse, a hundred years of culture can be gutted overnight. The metronome of our music and poetry isn't the ocean, it's fish. With cod gone meaning…"-Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
15. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)
By: Shannon Bowring
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more
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16. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
17. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
18. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
By: Susan Hand Shetterly
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great sto… read more
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19. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
By: Sarah Jaquette Ray
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille… read more
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20. Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
By: Edward Posnett
3.62
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
An intriguing exploration of the possibility of a more mutually beneficial relationship with nature… read more
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21. Paddy
By: R.D. Lawrence
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Recounts the naturalist author's experiences raising an orphaned young beaver for four months, and … read more
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