16 Top nonfiction books like The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt

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The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

By: Stephen Rutt

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of ch…

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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

By: Tristan Gooley

3.97

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural wor… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Gooley's How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • nature
"This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left car…"

-Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

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2. Findings

By: Kathleen Jamie

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poe… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jamie's Findings book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • scotland
Cover of Wildwood: A Journey through Trees by Roger  Deakin

3. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

By: Roger Deakin

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed Br… read more

Similar categories in Roger Deakin's Wildwood: A Journey through Trees book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

4. 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

Similar categories in George Monbiot's Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • natural history

5. The Bedlam Stacks

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after susta… read more

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6. Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)

By: Gavin Maxwell

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

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7. 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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8. A River Runs Through It

By: Norman Maclean , Barry Moser

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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9. Travels With My Aunt

By: Graham Greene

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more

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10. 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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11. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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12. 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

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • nature
"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

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13. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14) book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • british literature
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14. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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  • british literature
Cover of Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) by Richard  Coles

15. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • british literature
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16. 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

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"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

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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

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's The Salt Path book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1) by Philippa Gregory

18. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.83

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1) book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • british literature
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19. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Perfect Golden Circle book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nature
  • british literature
Cover of The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence

20. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

Similar categories in Ben Rawlence's The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • nature
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21. The Instant

By: Amy Liptrot

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Instant book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

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22. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki

23. Three Summers

By: Margarita Liberaki

3.76

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countrys… read more

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"Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord."

-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

"But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood."

-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

"It was during those moments that he realized that he experienced true happiness. Whereas big events - like when he graduated or got married to Maria or learned he would be a father - brought worries …"

-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

"I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone as…"

-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

Cover of We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan

24. We Are All Birds of Uganda

By: Hafsa Zayyan

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan… read more

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Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken          Smith

25. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

Similar categories in Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt

26. The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

By: Stephen Rutt

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of ch… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World by Benedict Macdonald

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

Similar categories in Benedict Macdonald's Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • natural history
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28. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel

By: David Gange

3.93

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

An original snapshot of the beauty of the British Isles, as captured by a brand new voice in nature… read more

Similar categories in David Gange's The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
  • british literature
Cover of The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2) by Graeme Macrae Burnet

29. The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2)

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The methodical but troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski visits the wife of a lawyer killed in a … read more

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"The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of the book, but, rather, whether they seem authentic to us as readers. When…"

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2)

Cover of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

30. Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

By: Lev Parikian

4.26

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the… read more

Similar categories in Lev Parikian's Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
Cover of Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James      Crawford

31. Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland

By: James Crawford

4.50

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky. You scramble up over the dunes of an isolat… read more

Similar categories in James Crawford's Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland book and Stephen Rutt's The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds

  • nonfiction
  • scotland

7 Top memoir books like The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt

Transform Your Habits

Findings

Kathleen Jamie

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

Roger Deakin

3.30

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

4.02

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16 Top nonfiction books like Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Nicklas Brendborg

3.92

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