18 best-selling nonfiction books like The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas by Natalie Sanders

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The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas

By: Natalie Sanders

4.05

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Britain's west coast is home to only one pod of orca, and they're heading rapidly towards extinctio…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas by Natalie Sanders , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Neil Shubin

4.03

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

2. Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

By: Juli Berwald

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her pass… read more

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3. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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4. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
Cover of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday

5. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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6. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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7. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

By: Doreen Cunningham

3.92

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis

8. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough

9. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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10. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

11. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Natalie Sanders's The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • audiobook
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

Cover of How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals by Tom Mustill

12. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

By: Tom Mustill

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"

-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

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13. Mr. Nobody

By: Catherine Steadman

3.60

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A man lacking identification and unable to speak is found semiconscious on a British beach and imme… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister

14. Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner

By: Mike Bannister

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

October 24th 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bann… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

15. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By: John Green

4.36

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fict… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of iso…"

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Cover of Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain by Sophie Pavelle

16. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain

By: Sophie Pavelle

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
Cover of How to Survive Family Holidays by Jack Whitehall

17. How to Survive Family Holidays

By: Jack Whitehall

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

One part 'Lonely Planet', one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Året uten sommer by Erika Fatland

18. Året uten sommer

By: Erika Fatland

3.91

Format: 391 pages, None

De berørte av terroren den 22. juli kom fra hele Norge. Erika Fatland har reist fra Longyearbyen i … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas

By: Natalie Sanders

4.05

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Britain's west coast is home to only one pod of orca, and they're heading rapidly towards extinctio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility by Michael J.   Moore

20. We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

By: Michael J. Moore

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Cook Out: Fell Foodie’s guide to over 80 gourmet recipes to cook in the great outdoors by Harrison Ward

21. Cook Out: Fell Foodie’s guide to over 80 gourmet recipes to cook in the great outdoors

By: Harrison Ward

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cook Out by Harrison Ward – aka Fell Foodie – is the ultimate outdoor adventure cookbook. Harrison … read more

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14 best-selling audiobook books like The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas by Natalie Sanders

Transform Your Habits

The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Michael Pollan

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Wolf

Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

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