In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-Year Affair
By: Matthew Oates
3.66
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poet…
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1. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"I could have sworn I saw some kind of mutual salute pass between Rich and the skua"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"The list total isn't important, but the birds themselves are important. Every bird you see. So the list is just a frivolous incentive for birding, but the birding itself is worthwhile."-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as …"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
"We did not know that within twenty years Ted would be recognized as one of the greatest field ornithologists of all time, the ultimate authority on the ultimate bird continent. Mercifully, we did not…"-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
2. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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3. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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5. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
By: Patrick Barkham
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprising… read more
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6. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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7. A Pair of Blue Eyes
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Alan Manford
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall … read more
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8. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
9. 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
- 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)
10. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- 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
11. I Am Legend
By: Richard Matheson
4.06
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more
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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
12. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
13. 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
- natural history
- science
"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
14. Witherward (Witherward, #1)
By: Hannah Mathewson
3.84
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the Witherward, and to a London that is not quite like our own. Here, it’s summertime in… read more
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"His words were a brief flash of ringing clarity; a moment of calm in perfect chaos, like the eye of a storm."-Hannah Mathewson, Witherward (Witherward, #1)
"As they descended through the portal underneath the abbey, she shed Jeanie's skin and became Ilsa again; the Ilsa who had never belonged in the world above."-Hannah Mathewson, Witherward (Witherward, #1)
15. Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
By: Jon Dunn
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embr… read more
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- natural history
- science
16. 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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- natural history
- science
17. Much Ado about Mothing: A Year Intoxicated by Britain's Rare and Remarkable Moths
By: James Lowen
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This book narrates a year--long quest to see Britain's rarest and most remarkable moths. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
18. In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-Year Affair
By: Matthew Oates
3.66
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poet… read more
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19. Moth (Animal)
By: Matthew Gandy
3.93
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Unlike their gaudy day-flying cousins, moths seem to reside in the shadows as denizens of the night… read more
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