11 Best history books like Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet by Patricia Hanlon

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Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

By: Patricia Hanlon

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely reso…

If you liked the history plot in Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet by Patricia Hanlon , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

By: Wallace J. Nichols , Celine Cousteau

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

This is your brain on water. There's something about water that attracts and fascinates us. No wond… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

2. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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3. Lab Girl

By: Hope Jahren

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more

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4. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

By: Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel

3.90

Format: 5 pages, Audio CD

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable tr… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bramhall's The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"I read. That's my form of travel."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

5. When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka

3.29

Format: None pages,

Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more

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6. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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7. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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8. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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10. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
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11. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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13. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more

Similar categories in Erin French's Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

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14. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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15. The Helsinki Affair

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinati… read more

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16. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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17. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Pahlka's Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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19. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

Similar categories in Yepoka Yeebo's Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

Similar categories in Boyce Upholt's The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi book and Patricia Hanlon's Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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21. Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life Where Land and Water Meet

By: Patricia Hanlon

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely reso… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science

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