12 Top nature books like Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places by Ian Carter

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Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places

By: Ian Carter

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be a part of—rather than apart from—nature? This book is about how we interact…

If you liked the nature plot in Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places by Ian Carter , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Drawn and Quartered

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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2. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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3. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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4. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa

4.17

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more

Similar categories in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) book and Ian Carter's Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

5. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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6. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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7. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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10. Blue Skies

By: T.C. Boyle

3.81

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary A… read more

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11. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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12. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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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
"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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14. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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15. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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16. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

By: Susanne Foitzik

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm by Lee Schofield

17. 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

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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18. 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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  • 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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19. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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20. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other

By: James Aldred

4.33

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places by Ian  Carter

21. Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places

By: Ian Carter

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be a part of—rather than apart from—nature? This book is about how we interact… read more

Similar categories in Ian Carter's Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places book and Ian Carter's Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history

14 Top nonfiction books like Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places by Ian Carter

Transform Your Habits

Drawn and Quartered

Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Transform Your Habits

My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

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12 Top politics books like Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Transform Your Habits

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Jason Hickel

4.51

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