6 must-read memoir books like To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne by Alistair Moffat

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To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

By: Alistair Moffat

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated isla…

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1. 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

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2. Landmarks

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more

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3. A Time of Gifts

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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

5. The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain

By: Christopher Somerville

4.06

Format: None pages,

"In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impr… read more

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6. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Bookseller of Inverness book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • scotland
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7. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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8. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

9. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
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11. 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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  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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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12. Rule, Nostalgia

By: Hannah Rose Woods

3.99

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Rose Woods's Rule, Nostalgia book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs

13. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

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

15. 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 Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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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16. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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17. Das Feld

By: Robert Seethaler

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Wenn die Toten auf ihr Leben zurückblicken könnten, wovon würden sie erzählen? Wäre es eine Geschic… read more

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  • audiobook
"Ik heb het over echte waanzin. Waanzin die een stropdas draagt en gepoetste schoenen. De waanzin die 's avonds naar de badkamerspiegel knikt en niet meer bijkomt van het lachen, omdat hij weet dat hi…"

-Robert Seethaler, Das Feld

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18. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nature
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19. Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better

By: Polly Atkin

4.18

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne by Alistair Moffat

20. To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

By: Alistair Moffat

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated isla… read more

Similar categories in Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • archaeology
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. Notebook

By: Tom Cox

4.25

Format: None pages, None

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the firs… read more

Similar categories in Tom Cox's Notebook book and Alistair Moffat's To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne

  • nonfiction
  • nature

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4.38

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