Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.57
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape…
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1. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
By: George Monbiot
4.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
2. The Great Railway Bazaar
By: Paul Theroux
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Life on Earth
By: David Attenborough
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more
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4. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more
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5. Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
By: Paul Rosolie
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist… read more
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6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
7. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
8. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- nonfiction
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
9. 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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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
10. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
11. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
12. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
13. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
17. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
18. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
By: Christiana Figueres
4.07
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more
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- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
19. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
20. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
21. 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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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
22. Eastern Horizons
By: Levison Wood
4.21
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, … read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
By: Adam Nicolson
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonish… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- science
24. The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
By: Ryan Jacobs
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by th… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
25. 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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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- science
26. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- science
27. Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A body lies motionless on the ground. Small, with a snouty head and covered with spines, it is unqu… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
28. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain
By: Sophie Pavelle
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats th… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- natural history
29. Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.57
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape… read more
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- nature
- wildlife
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- conservation
- environment
- ornithology
- science
30. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
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- nature
- wildlife
- ecology
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- science
31. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
By: Isabella Tree
4.55
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
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