The Wren: A Biography
By: Stephen Moss
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most comm…
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1. The Goshawk
By: T.H. White , Marie Winn
3.83
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T.H. White, the author of The Once and Future … read more
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- nature
- birds
- nonfiction
- natural history
"What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind…"-T.H. White, The Goshawk
2. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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4. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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5. October, October
By: Katya Balen
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD. October and her dad live in the w… read more
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- nature
"It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole."-Katya Balen, October, October
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
8. Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)
By: Ian Moore
3.27
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Vall… read more
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9. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
10. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
11. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
12. Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Christmas at Sandringham is going to be murder . . . December 2016 - A severed hand is found was… read more
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13. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- nature
- biology
- nonfiction
- natural history
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
14. Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld
By: Tim 'S Jongers
4.16
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In een land geregeerd door welvarende, hogeropgeleide mensen wordt op een beperkte en soms zelfs sc… read more
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- nonfiction
15. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
By: Adam Nicolson
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonish… read more
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- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
16. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
By: John Sweeney
4.24
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.44
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, PETER WOHLLEBEN, INVITES US TO RECONNECT WITH NATUR… read more
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- nature
- biology
- nonfiction
- natural history
18. 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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- nonfiction
- natural history
19. 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
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- 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
20. Duidelijkheid
By: Tom-Jan Meeus
3.88
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
'Duidelijkheid' is het essay van de Maand van de Filosofie 2024. Vanaf de eeuwwisseling veranderen … read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Skeleton’s Holiday
By: Leonora Carrington
3.66
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more
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"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
22. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- natural history
23. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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- nature
24. Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place
By: Benjamin Myers
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
‘A bone-tingling book’ – Richard BensonCarved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, Sc… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
25. Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
By: Tom Moorhouse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
26. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
27. The Wren: A Biography
By: Stephen Moss
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most comm… read more
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28. The Screaming Sky
By: Charles Foster
3.98
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the air like nothing on the planet. They watched the … read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- natural history
"Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly …"-Charles Foster, The Screaming Sky
29. Meeuwen: handboek voor Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten
By: Peter Adriaens
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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30. Wensvogels
By: Hans Dorrestijn
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Al meer dan 20 jaar bazuin ik rond dat ik 450 lievelingsvogels heb. Poging tot humor. Maar het is w… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. De scharrelaar (2021/1)
By: Various
4.21
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Voor vogelaars met liefde voor lezen, maar zeker ook voor lezers met liefde voor vogels! Een nieuwe… read more
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