13 must-read nature books like Deeper into the Wood by Ruth Pavey

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Deeper into the Wood

By: Ruth Pavey

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Following the success of Ruth Pavey’s debut, A Wood of One's Own, which introduced readers to her f…

If you liked the nature plot in Deeper into the Wood by Ruth Pavey , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell

1. Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

By: Neil Ansell

4.29

Format: 480 pages,

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his ow… read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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2. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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3. Holloway

By: Robert Macfarlane , Stanley Donwood , Dan Richards

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll a… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's Holloway book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

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4. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
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5. 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

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"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

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6. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

By: Henry Marsh

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's And Finally: Matters of Life and Death book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
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7. Isaac and the Egg

By: Bobby Palmer

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more

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8. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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9. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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10. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm

By: Lee Schofield

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more

Similar categories in Lee Schofield's Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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11. The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"[Tacitus] noted that the penalty for someone who dared peel the bark of a living tree (and thus kill the tree) was to have his navel cut out and nailed to the tree and then be driven around the tree …"

-John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

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12. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

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13. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

Similar categories in Nick Bradley's Four Seasons in Japan book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

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14. 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

Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"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

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15. Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it

By: Chris Packham

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And it needs us too. From … read more

Similar categories in Chris Packham's Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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16. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline

By: Christian Lewis

4.41

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
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17. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

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18. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest

By: Neil Ansell

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journe… read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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19. Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure

By: Siobhan Daniels

3.72

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG to start living lif… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Daniels's Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
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20. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel

By: David Gange

3.93

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

An original snapshot of the beauty of the British Isles, as captured by a brand new voice in nature… read more

Similar categories in David Gange's The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Deeper into the Wood by Ruth Pavey

21. Deeper into the Wood

By: Ruth Pavey

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Following the success of Ruth Pavey’s debut, A Wood of One's Own, which introduced readers to her f… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood book and Ruth Pavey's Deeper into the Wood

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history

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