Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
By: Peter Marren
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more
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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
2. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
3. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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4. The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
By: John Keay
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
The Great Indian Arc of the Meridian, begun in 1800, was the longest maesurement of the earth's sur… read more
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5. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more
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6. Crow Country
By: Mark Cocker
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly p… read more
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7. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
8. Waterland
By: Graham Swift
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Unknown Binding
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunte… read more
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9. 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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10. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
13. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
14. 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
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
"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
15. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
16. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
By: Leif Bersweden
4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
‘When was the last time you stopped and noticed a wild plant?’ An intriguing and timely explorat… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
"Our experience of nature is becoming more and more about what we see on our screens, and less about actually being outside and experiencing it for ourselves. Crouched on the fellside, nose to flower …"-Leif Bersweden, Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
17. 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
- nonfiction
- natural history
"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
18. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life
By: Jenny Tough
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
21. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
22. Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
By: Stephen Moss
3.91
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
23. Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.42
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Everything from grey squirrels to hornets, tawny owls to hazel dormice and even stoats and common t… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
24. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain
By: Sophie Pavelle
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats th… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
25. 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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
26. Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
By: Michael Blencowe
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
27. The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness
By: Leif Bersweden
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
28. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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- natural history
29. Meetings with Moths: Discovering their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives
By: Katty Baird
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
30. Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
By: Peter Marren
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Join Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- natural history
31. Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlisted for the Waterstone… read more
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