17 Top nonfiction books like Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell

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Curlew Moon

By: Mary Colwell

4.14

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Curlews are the UK’s largest wading bird, about the size of a herring gull on long legs. They are p…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher

By: Simon Barnes

3.98

Format: None pages,

Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis r… read more

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2. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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3. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

Similar categories in Adam Nicolson's The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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4. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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5. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • audiobook
  • british literature
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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6. 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

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • british literature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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8. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

Similar categories in Shoji Morimoto's Rental Person Who Does Nothing book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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9. 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

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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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10. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

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11. 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

Similar categories in Adam Nicolson's The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • audiobook
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12. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

Cover of Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie by Charlie Gilmour

13. Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie

By: Charlie Gilmour

4.14

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

​In this moving, critically acclaimed memoir, a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged fath… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Gilmour's Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • audiobook
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14. Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit

By: Tom Moorhouse

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A body lies motionless on the ground. Small, with a snouty head and covered with spines, it is unqu… read more

Similar categories in Tom Moorhouse's Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) by Philippa Perry

15. The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

By: Philippa Perry

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, p… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Perry's The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Manche Menschen verwechseln Liebe mit etwas, das einen überkommt, dabei ist sie viel mehr. Liebe äußert sich in dem, was wir tun. Liebe ist nicht passiv."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Wir alle sind verletzliche Wesen, die lernen müssen, dass man stärker ist, wenn man zu seiner Verletzlichkeit steht, als wenn sich hinter einer Fassade falscher Stärke versteckt."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Manchmal bedeutet authentisch zu sein, dass wir nicht so nett sind, wie wir gern wären. Wenn Ihnen das ein schlechtes Gewissen bereitet, denken Sie daran: Ein schlechtes Gewissen ist besser als Groll."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Be mindful of the language you use with others. A good way to start is to speak in 'I' statements, which define your own experience, and not 'you' statements, which are a judgement on the other person"

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

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16. Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

By: Miriam Darlington

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend … read more

Similar categories in Miriam Darlington's Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet by Simon Barnes

17. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet

By: Simon Barnes

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small by Isabella Tree

18. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small

By: Isabella Tree

4.55

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Meaning of Geese: A Thousand Miles in Search of Home by Nick Acheson

19. The Meaning of Geese: A Thousand Miles in Search of Home

By: Nick Acheson

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Meaning of Geese is a book of thrilling encounters with wildlife, of tired legs, punctured tyre… read more

Similar categories in Nick Acheson's The Meaning of Geese: A Thousand Miles in Search of Home book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
Cover of Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell

20. Curlew Moon

By: Mary Colwell

4.14

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Curlews are the UK’s largest wading bird, about the size of a herring gull on long legs. They are p… read more

Similar categories in Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • ecology
  • british literature
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • ireland
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. The Place of Tides

By: James Rebanks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old w… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's The Place of Tides book and Mary Colwell's Curlew Moon

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature

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Adam Nicolson

3.51

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Thomas Halliday

4.13

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Kate Atkinson

3.85

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4.46

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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4.07

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