17 must-read nature books like Woodsman by Ben Law

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Woodsman

By: Ben Law

3.91

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Woodsman Law, Ben

If you liked the nature plot in Woodsman by Ben Law , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

2. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

By: Olivia Laing

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. On… read more

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3. The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living

By: Mark Boyle

4.00

Format: None pages,

Imagine a year without spending any money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is … read more

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4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

5. 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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6. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By: Steven Pressfield , Robert McKee

4.08

Format: None pages,

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7. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

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8. In Patagonia

By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare

3.67

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

9. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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10. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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11. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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12. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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14. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

15. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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16. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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18. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

By: Mark Boyle

3.94

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"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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20. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

By: Johann Hari

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"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

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22. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature by M. Amos Clifford

23. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

By: M. Amos Clifford

3.65

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel

24. The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"[Tacitus] noted that the penalty for someone who dared peel the bark of a living tree (and thus kill the tree) was to have his navel cut out and nailed to the tree and then be driven around the tree …"

-John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

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25. The Wilderness Cure

By: Mo Wilde

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'A triumph' The TLS 'This special and magical book has changed the way I see the world' Dan Saladin… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
Cover of Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings by Valerie Trouet

26. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

By: Valerie Trouet

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, how… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"happy to share our hard-earned tree-ring data with one another and with the broader science community on the International Tree-Ring Data Bank,* a publicly accessible internet database hosted by the …"

-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

"Of en hoe een samenleving op de onmiddellijke dreiging van een catastrofe reageert, is afhankelijk van haar culturele waarden en hoe deze tot uiting komen in haar sociaal-economische structuur – denk…"

-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

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27. 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

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

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

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28. Woodsman

By: Ben Law

3.91

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Woodsman Law, Ben read more

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  • natural history
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of 21st Century Yokel by Tom  Cox

29. 21st Century Yokel

By: Tom Cox

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) by D.K. Publishing

30. The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)

By: D.K. Publishing

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Learn about species, environments, ecosystems and biodiversity in The Ecology Book. Part of the fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan   Richards

31. Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

By: Dan Richards

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

There are still wild places out there on our over-crowded planet. Through a series of personal jour… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook

21 Best audiobook books like Woodsman by Ben Law

Transform Your Habits

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Broad

4.18

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15 best-selling biography books like The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Walking Away

Simon Armitage

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Henry B. Kane , John J. Rowlands

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

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