Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors
By: James Canton
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and heal…
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1. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
By: Alexandra Horowitz
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening i… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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3. The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin, #15)
By: M.C. Beaton
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Iinfuriated that her holiday was ruined by a mugging, Agatha Raisin decides to open up her own dete… read more
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4. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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5. 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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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
6. The Colour of Mystery (Ellie McEwan #2)
By: Joy Ellis
4.30
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Three nice people. Three terrible crimes. What made them do these awful things? It’s the night s… read more
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7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
9. 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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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
10. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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11. Sanctuary
By: Garry Disher
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more
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12. Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
By: Katy Soar
4.08
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. … read more
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13. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- 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
15. 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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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
16. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
17. Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend
By: Christopher Hadley
3.97
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
IN THE MIDDLE AGES, a remarkable tomb was carved to cover the bones of an English hero. For centuri… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
"It is to rediscover a world where the community was in part defined by its collective memory, by its pride in its past, and a story its members had passed down through the generations: to wrestle wit…"-Christopher Hadley, Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend
18. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
By: Christopher Hadley
3.66
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Cleaving
By: Juliet E. McKenna
3.59
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The Cleaving is an Arthurian retelling that follows the tangled stories of four women: Nimue, Ygrai… read more
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20. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
21. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
22. Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
By: Christopher Somerville
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The J… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
By: Paula Byrne
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Hardy once received a fan letter from a young woman in New York, who had read Tess of the D’… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more
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25. Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors
By: James Canton
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and heal… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- natural history
26. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
27. Surgeons’ Hall (Jem Flockhart #4)
By: E.S. Thomson
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'Superb' Sunday Express A gripping and darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect… read more
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28. Stillicide
By: Cynan Jones
3.36
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and l… read more
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- nature
"How often the process of construction starts with destruction."-Cynan Jones, Stillicide
"There is only early morning light. Then the Water Train passes. Different. A weight of sound. The sound of a great waterfall crashing into a pool. It has the power church bells must used to have."-Cynan Jones, Stillicide
29. Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
By: Hettie Judah
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
30. Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
By: Jeremy Harte
3.92
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and co… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica
By: Duncan Mackay
4.37
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
Almost 2000 years ago, Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has ever seen. Within the space o… read more
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- nonfiction
