10 best-selling science books like Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

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Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the…

"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

If you liked the science plot in Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

1. 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

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • 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

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2. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
Cover of Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew       Green

3. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Green's Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross

4. 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

Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
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5. 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 John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
Cover of Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain by Amy Jeffs

6. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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7. 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

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • 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

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8. A Short History of the World According to Sheep

By: Sally Coulthard

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more

Similar categories in Sally Coulthard's A Short History of the World According to Sheep book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
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9. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

10. 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

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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11. Upon a Frosted Star

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warn… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Kuzniar's Upon a Frosted Star book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

"...magic does not belong solely to the young."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"...all I want, all I could ever need, is you."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"A life was so fragile, spun from magic impossible to understand..."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

Cover of Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light by Matt Gaw

12. Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light

By: Matt Gaw

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other fo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Gaw's Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
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13. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other

By: James Aldred

4.33

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more

Similar categories in James Aldred's Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari by Simon Barnes

14. The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari

By: Simon Barnes

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo… read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
Cover of Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

15. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

Cover of The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest by Neil Ansell

16. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest

By: Neil Ansell

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journe… read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal by Jo Brown

17. Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

By: Jo Brown

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small won… read more

Similar categories in Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
Cover of The Owl: A Biography (The Bird Biography Series Book 5) by Stephen  Moss

18. The Owl: A Biography (The Bird Biography Series Book 5)

By: Stephen Moss

4.32

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

'BEAUTIFULLY, A BOOK ABOUT BIRDS' The Sunday Times | 'ENGAGING AND EYE-OPENING' The Countryman Unco… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's The Owl: A Biography (The Bird Biography Series Book 5) book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead

19. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

By: Tim Birkhead

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more

Similar categories in Tim Birkhead's Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside by Jake Fiennes

20. Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside

By: Jake Fiennes

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella Tree … read more

Similar categories in Jake Fiennes's Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health (From Medical Scientist and Head Nutritionist at ZOE) by Federica Amati

21. Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health (From Medical Scientist and Head Nutritionist at ZOE)

By: Federica Amati

3.73

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

***AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING*** DISCOVER THE SCIENCE OF EATING FOR A LIFETIME OF HEALTH ‘An essent… read more

Similar categories in Federica Amati's Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health (From Medical Scientist and Head Nutritionist at ZOE) book and John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

  • nonfiction

19 must-read nonfiction books like Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

Matthew Green

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

Peter Ross

4.37

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Transform Your Habits

Nature Cure

Richard Mabey

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Tony Hawks

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Chris Broad

4.18

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