7 must-read nature books like Land Of Maybe by Tim Ecott

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Land Of Maybe

By: Tim Ecott

3.83

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of 'slow life' on t…

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1. A Short Guide to a Happy Life

By: Anna Quindlen

3.96

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side,  Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I a…"

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

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2. A Burnt-Out Case

By: Graham Greene , Giles Foden

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Gra… read more

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"The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are"

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

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3. The Little Book of the Icelanders

By: Alda Sigmundsdóttir

3.54

Format: 337 pages, ebook

Hi, and thank you for your interest in The Little Book of the Icelanders - a collection of 50 minia… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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4. An African in Greenland

By: James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew th… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. The Waiting Land

By: Dervla Murphy

4.44

Format: None pages,

In The Waiting Landseasoned travel writer Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. A Woman in the Polar Night

By: Christiane Ritter

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

7. The London Train

By: Tessa Hadley

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book Review Long-listed forthe Orange … read more

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8. The Blood Strand (Faroes #1)

By: Chris Ould

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, and the islands are… read more

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9. Penguin Lost

By: Andrey Kurkov

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguinfleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight bo… read more

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10. The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)

By: Bernard Scudder , Arnaldur Indriðason

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the sk… read more

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11. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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12. Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)

By: Bernard Scudder , Arnaldur Indriðason

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, the only clues are a cryptic note le… read more

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13. L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011

By: Riad Sattouf

4.61

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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15. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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16. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

By: Erika Fatland

4.28

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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17. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

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18. Why We Swim

By: Bonnie Tsui

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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19. The Amur River: Between Russia And China

By: Colin Thubron

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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20. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

By: Egill Bjarnason

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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21. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"

-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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22. Blomsterdalen

By: Niviaq Korneliussen

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more

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23. Tabita (Trilogien om Tabita og Vittu, #1)

By: Iben Mondrup

4.11

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Eva og Berthel kommer hjem til Danmark med to adopterede børn efter en årrække i Grønland. Det er m… read more

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24. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

By: Dorthe Nors

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of th… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • denmark
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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25. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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26. Spullen brengen

By: Jelle Brandt Corstius

3.91

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In de zomer van 2023 werd Jelle Brandt Corstius gebeld door schrijver Jaap Scholten: hij had zeven … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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27. Saga Land

By: Richard Fidler

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friends… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova

28. Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

By: Kapka Kassabova

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border. I… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"Everything happens twice. Once as life itself, and twice as memory – or forgetting."

-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

"This is the meaning of an ecosystem,’ said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.’ Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.’ To begin nature is to return to your own kind."

-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

"This is the meaning of an ecosystem,’ said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.’ Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.’ To be in nature is to return to your own kind."

-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

"We are not what we are. Our tragedy is that we don't even know it. The world is not what we think it is. It is fathomlessly alive. none of us is a single entity, we are many-formed, polytropos. Every…"

-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

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29. Hem

By: Karin Erlandsson

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Havet omsluter det hem som är Åland, och allt sedan stenåldern har man begett sig ut på det. I sin … read more

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30. Land Of Maybe

By: Tim Ecott

3.83

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of 'slow life' on t… read more

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  • nature
  • memoir
  • travel
  • denmark
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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31. Devil's Fjord

By: David Hewson

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen uncovers a series of dark secrets when he investigates the d… read more

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17 must-read nonfiction books like Land Of Maybe by Tim Ecott

Transform Your Habits

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Anna Quindlen

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Little Book of the Icelanders

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

3.54

Transform Your Habits

An African in Greenland

James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Waiting Land

Dervla Murphy

4.44

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

Transform Your Habits

What Happens at Night

Peter Cameron

3.47

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