Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
4.06
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold. Ten weeks into…
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1. Black Swan Green
By: David Mitchell
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more
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"Trees're always a relief, after people."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
2. An Accidental Death (D.C. Smith #1)
By: None
3.68
Format: 265 pages,
The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk coun… read more
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3. Lassie Come-Home
By: Eric Knight , Marguerite Kirmse
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A beloved classic gets a beautiful new look. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. B… read more
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- animals
4. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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5. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
By: Leigh Calvez
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more
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6. In the Company of Crows and Ravens
By: John M. Marzluff , Tony Angell , Paul R. Ehrlich
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to t… read more
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7. 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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8. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
9. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
By: Noah Strycker
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more
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10. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
12. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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- biography
- animals
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"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
13. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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14. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
15. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
16. The Rip
By: Holly Craig
3.31
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathe… read more
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17. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
18. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- biography
- nature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
19. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
20. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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21. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
By: Otto English
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more
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- biography
22. 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
- animals
- 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
23. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
24. The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
By: Emma Mitchell
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, 'the grey slug' - for twenty-five … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
25. Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
By: Roger Morgan-Grenville
4.06
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold. Ten weeks into… read more
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- biography
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
26. Iris is More than Okay
By: Natalie Cooper
3.64
Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio
Iris Nightingale is more than okay. She has her life planned out to a perfect schedule. Work, run, … read more
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27. Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once su… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. 21st Century Yokel
By: Tom Cox
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more
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29. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
By: Hamza Yassin
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
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30. Bird Therapy
By: Joe Harkness
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all the things his doctor medication help… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"(...) giving something back to nature can be a genuinely rewarding act."-Joe Harkness, Bird Therapy
"It's reassuring to know that the garden birds are there, even when I'm not."-Joe Harkness, Bird Therapy
"... even now, in the twenty-first century, mental health is still steeped in a lethal taboo which locks sick people up in themselves and leads to tragedy."-Joe Harkness, Bird Therapy
"Nature and birdwatching can offer a great deal of stability. In the life of someone living with daily mental health issues, these consistencies can act as an anchor to the present and provide groundi…"-Joe Harkness, Bird Therapy
31. On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place
By: Mike Parker
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ce… read more
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- biography
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