The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
By: Leif Bersweden
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing …
Want to Read $ 1.99If you liked the biography plot in The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness by Leif Bersweden , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. The Shock of the Fall
By: Nathan Filer
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand wha… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nathan Filer's The Shock of the Fall book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
2. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
3. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
5. 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
Want to Read $ 12.47Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- 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
6. Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.05
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again — but then he meets Katr… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Mick Herron's Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3) book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"Women choose men hoping they'll change. Men choose women hoping they won't."-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)
"Don't. Don't do anything. Just go. Now." It was always possible that if you very quickly told a man four times to do something, he'd get the message."-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)
7. Modern Nature
By: Derek Jarman
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Book by Jarman, Derek read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Derek Jarman's Modern Nature book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature
8. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Living Mountain book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
9. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
10. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"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
11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
3.55
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"A whore is a whore is a whore."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"All cats are grey with the candles out."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
13. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.01
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
14. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"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
15. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Robert Harris's V2: A Novel of World War II book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
16. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
17. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
18. 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
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nonfiction
19. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
By: Thor Hanson
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Thor Hanson's Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
20. 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
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- 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
21. I Have Something to Tell You
By: Susan Lewis
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Don’t miss the captivating new book from the internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis! Hig… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Susan Lewis's I Have Something to Tell You book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
22. London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
By: Tom Chivers
3.94
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
What secrets lie beneath a city? Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and un… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tom Chivers's London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nonfiction
- biography
23. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Lee Schofield's Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
24. The Beauty of Broken Things
By: Victoria Connelly
4.09
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
United by tragedy, can two broken souls make each other whole? After the tragic loss of his wife, … read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Victoria Connelly's The Beauty of Broken Things book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
25. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
By: Anita Sethi
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One woman's journey of reclamation through natural landscapes as she contemplates identity and woma… read more
Want to Read $ 12.00Similar categories in Anita Sethi's I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nature
- nonfiction
- biography
- natural history
26. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Simon Barnes's The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- nonfiction
- nature
27. Thirsty Animals
By: Rachelle Atalla
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. Fo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
28. The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
By: Leif Bersweden
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing … read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
- biography
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
29. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
30. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Mick Herron's Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Mick Herron's Spook Street (Slough House, #4) book and Leif Bersweden's The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
