Greenery
By: Tim Dee
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A masterpiece of nature writing from the author of The Running Sky Greenery begins in a midsumme…
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1. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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2. Orfeo
By: Richard Powers
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged nove… 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. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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5. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
- science nature
"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
6. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- nonfiction
7. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
8. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
By: Ian Urbina
4.36
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is …"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on th…"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
9. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
"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
10. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
11. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
"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
12. 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
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- nonfiction
"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
13. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
14. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
By: Erika Howsare
3.79
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
15. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science nature
16. 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
"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
17. 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
18. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
19. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science nature
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
20. Spring Rain
By: Marc Hamer
4.36
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about the rain, a boy, an angry dog and a gardener, and how some of them find peace… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, …"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mi…"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
21. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
By: Edith Widder
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the l… read more
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- nature
22. 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
"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
23. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
By: Hannah Stowe
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
24. 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
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25. The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
By: D.K. Publishing
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Learn about species, environments, ecosystems and biodiversity in The Ecology Book. Part of the fa… read more
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- nature
26. The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
By: Adrienne Buller
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"How can we, despite countless government pledges and programmes and a groundswell of civic society, remain quietly on course to sacrifice swathes of this planet's people and lifeforms to the demands …"-Adrienne Buller, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
27. 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
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- nature
28. Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
By: James Macdonald Lockhart
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A book about birdsong, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdon… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
29. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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- nature
30. Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
By: Jake Fiennes
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella Tree … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
31. Greenery
By: Tim Dee
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A masterpiece of nature writing from the author of The Running Sky Greenery begins in a midsumme… read more
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