13 must-read nature books like Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats by Marianne Taylor

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Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats

By: Marianne Taylor

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The mysterious Scottish Wildcat--Britain's rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores…

If you liked the nature plot in Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats by Marianne Taylor , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. The Blue Day Book: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up

By: Bradley Trevor Greive

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The Blue Day Bookis a wonderful collection of amusing, poignant animal photos and inspirational tex… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials, #0.5)

By: Philip Pullman , John Lawrence

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby -- Texan ae… read more

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3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more

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4. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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5. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride migh… read more

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"I am sure I could not have liked any French captain half so much as you"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I am never going to let anyone take you away from me.' 'Nor I, my dear,' Laurence said, smiling"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

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6. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more

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7. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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8. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.26

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more

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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

9. 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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10. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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11. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

12. Lyra's Oxford (His Dark Materials, #3.5)

By: Philip Pullman , John Lawrence

4.67

Format: None pages,

Lyra's Oxfordbegins with Lyra and Pantalaimon spotting a witch's daemon. Lyra shelters the daemon f… read more

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13. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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14. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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15. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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16. 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

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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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17. 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

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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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18. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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19. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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20. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

By: Scott Weidensaul

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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21. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby

22. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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23. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more

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  • nonfiction
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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

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25. Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

By: Bella Bathurst

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For many of us, Britain is countryside - drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting

26. Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land

By: Andrew Painting

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson

27. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery

By: Paul Jepson

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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28. Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats

By: Marianne Taylor

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The mysterious Scottish Wildcat--Britain's rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Taylor's Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats book and Marianne Taylor's Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats

  • biology
  • cats
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
  • science
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29. Sea Bean: A Beachcomber's Search for a Magical Charm―A Memoir

By: Sally Huband

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

SEA BEAN is a coastal treasure. Its hard-won attentiveness shows the wonder and vulnerability of ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
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30. Wild Mull: A Natural History of the Island and its People

By: Stephen Littlewood

4.27

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

High above the mountaintops on the Isle of Mull, a huge bird is soaring. Its all-encompassing gaze … read more

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  • nature

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The Blue Day Book: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up

Bradley Trevor Greive

4.27

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Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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

Adam Nicolson

3.51

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Jessica Knoll

4.02

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Alice Winn

4.53

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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