Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape: The Complete History of Britain's Trees, Woods & Hedgerows
By: Oliver Rackham
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
2. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
3. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
By: Roger Deakin
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed Br… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
4. The Lost Words
By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
5. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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6. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.92
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more
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"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
7. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
By: Roger Deakin
4.04
Format: 323 pages,
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to liter… read more
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8. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.41
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more
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"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
9. Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.43
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make t… read more
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"Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
10. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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11. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three wit… read more
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12. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- ecology
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
13. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
By: Kay O'Neill
4.41
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more
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"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
14. The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
By: Kay O'Neill
4.50
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon se… read more
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"Everything that happens is part of your wholeness."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song tha…"-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
16. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
17. The Lost Spells
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells
18. 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
- history
- natural history
"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
19. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- ecology
- natural history
"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
20. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
21. 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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- ecology
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
22. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
23. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
By: Caroline Lucas
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- ecology
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
26. Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
By: Susie Dent
3.51
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Did you know that... STEALING SOMEONE'S THUNDER is based on a real event; The original FREELA… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Camelot (The Arthurian Tales, #2)
By: Giles Kristian
4.25
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
Following his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns us to… read more
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28. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You
By: Nick Hayes
4.35
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
29. Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch
By: Rhianna Pratchett
4.57
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
"They say you don't find witchcraft, it finds you . . ." An illustrated and practical guide to b… read more
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30. The Trespasser's Companion
By: Nick Hayes
4.41
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
'The countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
31. Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape: The Complete History of Britain's Trees, Woods & Hedgerows
By: Oliver Rackham
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Long accepted as the best work on the subject, this is both a comprehensive history of Britain's wo… read more
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- ecology
- history
- natural history
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- nonfiction
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