Birdsong in a Time of Silence
By: Steven Lovatt
3.83
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. "At this tim…
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1. Round Ireland with a Fridge
By: Tony Hawks
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hit… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Howling Miller
By: Arto Paasilinna
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore a dilapidated mill, its inhabitants are… read more
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3. 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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4. The Odd Women
By: George Gissing
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
A novel of social realism, The Odd Womenreflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late n… read more
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5. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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6. 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
- british literature
"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
7. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
8. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- british literature
9. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
10. Lean Fall Stand
By: Jon McGregor
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more
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- british literature
11. 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
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- british literature
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
12. The Electricity of Every Living Thing
By: Katherine May
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing
13. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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14. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- british literature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
15. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- british literature
"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
16. 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
- british literature
"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
17. The Little Snake
By: A.L. Kennedy
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and flutterin… read more
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18. 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
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
19. Fifty Words for Snow
By: Nancy Campbell
3.85
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Fifty international words for snow – explored by an award-winning writer – that will enchant reader… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
20. The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
By: Emma Mitchell
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, 'the grey slug' - for twenty-five … read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
21. Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea
By: Tracey Williams
4.38
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
22. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other
By: James Aldred
4.33
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
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- nature
23. 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
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
24. One Medicine
By: Matt Morgan
4.27
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
25. 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
- animals
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
26. Birdsong in a Time of Silence
By: Steven Lovatt
3.83
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. "At this tim… read more
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- british literature
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
27. Wintering: A Season with Geese
By: Stephen Rutt
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of winter and of the bird that heralds it; the perfect seasonal gift book for bird lo… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
28. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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29. Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them
By: Derek Gow
3.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"[Derek Gow is] a wry, profane truth teller who is equal parts yeoman farmer, historical ecologist,… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- animals
- natural history
30. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
31. A Life of Ospreys
By: Roy Dennis
4.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
All about ospreys - best seller and widely acclaimed book by a top expert read more
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