11 Best animals books like Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery by Forrest Galante

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Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

By: Forrest Galante

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth.  Forrest Gal…

If you liked the animals plot in Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery by Forrest Galante , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

By: Tim Butcher

3.98

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the… read more

Similar categories in Tim Butcher's Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

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2. Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

By: Steven Rinella

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of humanity’s oldest pursuit and its relevance today  Steven Rinella grew up in Twin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
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3. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
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4. Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

By: Wendy Williams

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
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5. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

6. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide

By: Peter Allison

3.66

Format: 336 pages,

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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7. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science

8. The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge

By: Jamie James

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

Although it was still too dark to see well, Joe absentmindedly thrust his right hand into the sack … read more

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9. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

By: Dan Flores

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more

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10. Walking The Himalayas

By: Levison Wood

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest … read more

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11. 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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12. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behavior

By: David Attenborough

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

"Watching and filming animals world-wide has occupied most of my working life. By the end of the 19… read more

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13. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

By: Desmond Morris

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris c… read more

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14. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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15. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

By: Becky Smethurst

4.38

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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17. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
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18. Dreamland: An Autobiography

By: Bob Lazar

3.88

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Bob Lazar is the reason Area 51 became infamous in the 1980s and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan… read more

Similar categories in Bob Lazar's Dreamland: An Autobiography book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The late nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, one of the best known and most respected UFO investigators, became the highest profile Lazar debunker, and although he often told his audiences that he wa…"

-Bob Lazar, Dreamland: An Autobiography

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19. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

By: Cameron R. Hanes

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"

-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

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20. Tremendous

By: Joey "Coco" Diaz

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. . . . Movie star. Family man. Com… read more

Similar categories in Joey "Coco" Diaz's Tremendous book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Van Hemert's The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

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22. The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more

Similar categories in Alex Messenger's The Twenty-Ninth Day book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog by Rick McIntyre

23. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog

By: Rick McIntyre

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Breaking Free From Broke: The Ultimate Guide to More Money and Less Stress by George Kamel

24. Breaking Free From Broke: The Ultimate Guide to More Money and Less Stress

By: George Kamel

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has become the land of the free and home of the broke. Household debt is at an all-time hig… read more

Similar categories in George Kamel's Breaking Free From Broke: The Ultimate Guide to More Money and Less Stress book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

25. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
Cover of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

26. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

By: Graham Hancock

4.14

Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative versio… read more

Similar categories in Graham Hancock's America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • science
"...as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"Massive wildfires occurred at the onset of the Younger Dryas, representing the most anomalous episode of biomass burning in at least 120,000 years and possibly in the past ~386,000 years."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand…"

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Cover of Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery by Forrest Galante

27. Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

By: Forrest Galante

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth.  Forrest Gal… read more

Similar categories in Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom by Evan Antin

28. World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom

By: Evan Antin

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Dr. Evan Antin, America’s most popular veterinarian, comes a wild look at our natural world. P… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by David Hone

29. How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science

By: David Hone

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs In just the past twe… read more

Similar categories in David Hone's How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science book and Forrest Galante's Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science
Cover of The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War by J.W. Mohnhaupt

30. The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

By: J.W. Mohnhaupt

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war , fought between the zoos on eith… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
Cover of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo

31. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

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3.41

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