8 must-read natural history books like In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians by Robin Moore

If you liked the natural history plot in In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians by Robin Moore , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Similar categories in Kenn Kaufman's Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• adventure
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"I could have sworn I saw some kind of mutual salute pass between Rich and the skua"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"The list total isn't important, but the birds themselves are important. Every bird you see. So the list is just a frivolous incentive for birding, but the birding itself is worthwhile."

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as …"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"We did not know that within twenty years Ted would be recognized as one of the greatest field ornithologists of all time, the ultimate authority on the ultimate bird continent. Mercifully, we did not…"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

Similar categories in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• animals
• adventure

"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

Similar categories in David Quammen's Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• biology
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in David Attenborough's Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• animals
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• animals
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• adventure

"Axel,"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Then don’t you despair?"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"I dream with my eyes open."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti (Binti, #1) book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Edward O. Wilson's Silent Spring book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• adventure

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nature
• biology
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

"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

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• environment
• science

"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• biology
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's The Mountains Sing book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

Similar categories in Ed Yong's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• biology
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• nature
• science

"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Similar categories in David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

Similar categories in Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction

"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nature
• animals
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Similar categories in Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• science

"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Similar categories in Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction

"Mom starts to cry because she doesn't know how to get mad. It's like the anger rises up in her and then turns to tears the second it gets to her eyes."

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

"It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other."

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

"If I could open up my chest at that moment, there would be nothing but a blank shield inside, a barrier, rigid and sealed, from which nothing escapes, into which nothing is absorbed. It starts at the…"

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

Similar categories in Christina Thompson's Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• science

"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."

-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Similar categories in Thor Hanson's Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• biology
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Jonathan Edward Durham's Winterset Hollow book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• animals

"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"

-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"

-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

Similar categories in Sally Coulthard's A Short History of the World According to Sheep book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• nonfiction
• animals
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians book and Robin Moore's In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

• adventure
• biology
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• nature
• science