6 Best nonfiction books like His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor by Matthew Oates

If you liked the nonfiction plot in His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor by Matthew Oates , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

By: Nicholas B. Davies , James McCallum , Nick Davies

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our an… read more

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• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

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4. 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
• nonfiction
• natural history
• 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

5. 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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• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"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

6. Eat, Drink, Run: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

By: Bryony Gordon

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bryony Gordon was not a runner. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional rollercoas… read more

Want to Read $ 4.99

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7. Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds

By: Benedict Macdonald

4.57

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape… read more

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8. His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor

By: Matthew Oates

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A witty, informative, and myth-busting account of the Purple Emperor butterfly, one of Britain's mo… read more

Want to Read $ 14.40

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• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science