5 best-selling nature books like The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell

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The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Campbell

3.72

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching acc…

If you liked the nature plot in The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Animals Strike Curious Poses

By: Elena Passarello

3.80

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian perm… read more

Similar categories in Elena Passarello's Animals Strike Curious Poses book and Nancy Campbell's The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • science
"We seem programmed to work for a future which doesn’t concern us exactly, but that rather involves something that resembles us. We all walk through the woods, our bodies rushing at the atomic level t…"

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

"As if every animal a human brain has ever seen, it has swallowed. We find their outlines, as if on Ouija boards, in mountains and in clouds. We scratch the arcs of their trunks in the dirt with our f…"

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

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2. Golden Hill

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a hands… read more

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3. Mr Norris Changes Trains

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more

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4. All the Birds, Singing

By: Evie Wyld

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more

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5. The Faraway Nearby

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is… read more

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6. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

7. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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8. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story

By: Debbie Tung

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sweet, funny, and quietlypoignant, Debbie Tung's comics reveal the ups and downs of coming of age a… read more

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9. The Poetics of Space

By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more

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10. Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)

By: J.G. Ballard

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's st… read more

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11. 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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  • nature
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"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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12. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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13. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
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14. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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15. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

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16. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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17. Somebody Loves You

By: Mona Arshi

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more

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  • poetry
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18. An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands

By: Fran Wilde

2.91

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com … read more

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19. Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation

By: Ronald Hutton

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from t… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Hutton's Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation book and Nancy Campbell's The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. A Short Philosophy of Birds

By: Philippe J. Dubois

3.71

Format: None pages, ebook

The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creatures There is so much we can learn from birds. Th… read more

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  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • science
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21. The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Campbell

3.72

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching acc… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

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Elena Passarello

3.80

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4.13

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3.83

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C.L. Polk

3.86

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Daryl Gregory

3.91

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Claire Wrenwood

3.30

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Katharine Duckett

3.71

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