Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
By: Stephen Fabes
4.19
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know somethin…
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1. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
2. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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3. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
By: Christina Lamb
4.63
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an… read more
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- nonfiction
"Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war."-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude ston…"-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
4. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
5. Snow Country
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.71
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more
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"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country
6. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- 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
7. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
8. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
9. The Goodbye Cat
By: Hiro Arikawa
3.90
Format: 285 pages, ebook
In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more
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"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
10. 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
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
11. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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- nonfiction
12. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
13. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- cycling
14. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
15. Fifteen Wild Decembers
By: Karen Powell
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more
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16. A Chip Shop in Poznań
By: Ben Aitken
3.45
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century
By: Marcus Chown
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From gravity to black holes, tides to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from… read more
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18. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
By: Lucy Easthope
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more
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- biography
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19. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
By: Paterson Joseph
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in… read more
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20. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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21. Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
By: Stephen Fabes
4.19
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know somethin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- medical
- travel
- medicine
- nonfiction
- cycling
- nature
