5 must-read nature books like Paddy by R.D. Lawrence

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Paddy

By: R.D. Lawrence

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Recounts the naturalist author's experiences raising an orphaned young beaver for four months, and …

If you liked the nature plot in Paddy by R.D. Lawrence , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Stolen Innocence

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"With no other choice, I'd submitted to the will of our prophet and had married my nineteen-year-old first cousin."

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

"In the end, He's the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that's the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I couldn't have survived if I…"

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

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2. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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3. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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4. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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5. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating book and R.D. Lawrence's Paddy

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
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6. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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8. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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9. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and R.D. Lawrence's Paddy

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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10. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

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11. Call Your Daughter Home

By: Deb Spera

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading … read more

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12. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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13. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great sto… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hand Shetterly's Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge book and R.D. Lawrence's Paddy

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
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14. Paddy

By: R.D. Lawrence

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Recounts the naturalist author's experiences raising an orphaned young beaver for four months, and … read more

Similar categories in R.D. Lawrence's Paddy book and R.D. Lawrence's Paddy

  • wildlife
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

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3.67

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3.91

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4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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