Much Ado about Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain's Rare and Remarkable Moths
By: James Lowen
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This book narrates a year--long quest to see Britain's rarest and most remarkable moths. Th…
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1. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and … read more
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- memoir
- 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
2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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3. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
4. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
By: Patrick Barkham
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprising… read more
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5. A Pair of Blue Eyes
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Alan Manford
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall … read more
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6. A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching
By: None
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Stephen Moss's book is the first to trace the history and development of birdwatching on both sides… read more
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7. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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8. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
9. The Sealwoman's Gift
By: Sally Magnusson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more
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10. 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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- memoir
- 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
11. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
12. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
13. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"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
14. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
15. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
By: Seirian Sumner
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
16. Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
By: Jon Dunn
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embr… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
17. Into the Tangled Bank: In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature
By: Lev Parikian
4.14
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experien… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
18. Meetings with Moths: Discovering their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives
By: Katty Baird
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
19. Much Ado about Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain's Rare and Remarkable Moths
By: James Lowen
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This book narrates a year--long quest to see Britain's rarest and most remarkable moths. Th… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
20. In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-Year Affair
By: Matthew Oates
3.66
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poet… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
21. Moth (Animal)
By: Matthew Gandy
3.93
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Unlike their gaudy day-flying cousins, moths seem to reside in the shadows as denizens of the night… read more
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