14 must-read history books like Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

Cover of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

By: Jared Farmer

3.71

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world   Humans have always…

If you liked the history plot in Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

2. The Hemingses of Monticello

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had … read more

Similar categories in Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst, Suzanne Simard

3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • biology
  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

4. The Singing Wilderness

By: Sigurd F. Olson , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, … read more

Similar categories in Sigurd F. Olson's The Singing Wilderness book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

5. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship… read more

Similar categories in Susan Casey's The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Cover of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

6. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Cover of Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

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

Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

8. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Cover of River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman

9. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

Similar categories in Cat Jarman's River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin

10. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Cover of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday

11. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

Cover of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy

12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Kennedy's Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • biology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Cover of Pearl by Siân Hughes

13. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

Similar categories in Siân Hughes's Pearl book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

15. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

Similar categories in Will Sommer's Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

16. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more

Similar categories in Diana Beresford-Kroeger's To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

Cover of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe by Carl Safina

17. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

By: Carl Safina

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more

Similar categories in Carl Safina's Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

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

18. 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 Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes

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

Similar categories in Nick Hayes's The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • history
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun

20. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding

By: Eoghan Daltun

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Beautiful nature writing combined with a passionate appeal for a radically changed relationship to … read more

Similar categories in Eoghan Daltun's An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"A common misconception is that rewilding seeks to return land to an idealised previous ecological state. In reality it would never be possible to go back in time to some arbitrarily chosen baseline -…"

-Eoghan Daltun, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding

Cover of Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip

21. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

By: Leila Philip

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more

Similar categories in Leila Philip's Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

22. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

Cover of The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

23. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

By: Katie Holten

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more

Similar categories in Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Seven Steeples by Sara Baume

24. Seven Steeples

By: Sara Baume

3.53

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more

Similar categories in Sara Baume's Seven Steeples book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • environment
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"

-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples

Cover of Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum

25. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

3.81

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new … read more

Similar categories in Martha C. Nussbaum's Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

26. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

By: Arik Kershenbaum

3.96

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE We are unprepared for the greatest discov… read more

Similar categories in Arik Kershenbaum's The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"One of the most fundamental rules of natural selection, on Earth and across the universe, is that there is always a cost-benefit trade-off. Improving your abilities in one field must reduce your capa…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

"Whenever there is a conflict of interest (or a potential conflict of interest) between two animals making their own decisions to maximize their own fitness, then an evolutionary game is in play. Each…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

Cover of Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet

27. Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more

Similar categories in Jennine Capó Crucet's Say Hello to My Little Friend book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Cover of How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley

28. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

By: Tristan Gooley

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Gooley's How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • biology
  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

29. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

By: Jared Farmer

3.71

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world   Humans have always… read more

Similar categories in Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nature
  • history
  • travel
  • biology
  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias

30. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Dias's The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

31. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People book and Jared Farmer's Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

  • nonfiction
  • history

23 best-selling nonfiction books like Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

Transform Your Habits

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

2.67

Transform Your Habits

The Hemingses of Monticello

Annette Gordon-Reed

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

View all the books

21 must-read fiction books like The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Kate Atkinson

3.71

Transform Your Habits

August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.