8 Best nonfiction books like A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth by Don Stap

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A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

By: Don Stap

4.12

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Traveling with ornithologists John O'Neill and Ted Parker on two separate expeditions into the Peru…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth by Don Stap , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Carnegie's Maid

By: Marie Benedict

3.98

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspir… read more

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2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more

Similar categories in Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nonfiction
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3. The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

By: Tim Gallagher

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Tim Gallagher's The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • ornithology
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4. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

By: Mary Doria Russell

3.77

Format: None pages,

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more

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5. Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more

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6. Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre

By: Tim Gallagher

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Naturalist Tim Gallagher journeys deep into the savagely beautiful Sierra Madre, home to rich wildl… read more

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7. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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8. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

By: Scott Weidensaul

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more

Similar categories in Scott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • ornithology
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9. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

By: George Saunders

4.54

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."

-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."

-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"

-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"

-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

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10. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"There is grandeur in this view,"

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

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11. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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12. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

By: Rebecca Heisman

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Heisman's Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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13. Perdido en el Amazonas

By: Germán Castro Caycedo

4.20

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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Cover of A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth by Don Stap

14. A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

By: Don Stap

4.12

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Traveling with ornithologists John O'Neill and Ted Parker on two separate expeditions into the Peru… read more

Similar categories in Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth book and Don Stap's A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

  • nature
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • ornithology

15. Bello Animal (Spanish and English Edition)

By: Fanny Buitrago

2.74

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

La noticia de la muerte de Gema Brunés, la modelo más famosa del país, se riega por internet a trav… read more

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Tim Gallagher

3.54

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4.20

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4.16

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4.08

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4.54

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4.12

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4.15

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