The Journal, 1837-1861
By: Damion Searls , Henry David Thoreau , John R. Stilgoe
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Henry David Thoreau's Journalwas his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied hi…
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1. The Love of the Last Tycoon
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year a… read more
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- classics
"There’s a writer for you,"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
"Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
2. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
3. The Iliad/The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more
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4. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- classics
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
5. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
6. The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
By: Anonymous , Juan Mascaró
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages an… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
7. The Journal, 1837-1861
By: Damion Searls , Henry David Thoreau , John R. Stilgoe
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Henry David Thoreau's Journalwas his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied hi… read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
8. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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- classics
9. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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10. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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11. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
By: Annie Dillard
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more
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12. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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13. The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
By: Max Weber , Tracy B. Strong , Rodney Livingstone , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as … read more
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14. Sophist
By: Plato , Nicholas P. White
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to spe… read more
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15. My Garden (Book)
By: Jamaica Kincaid , Jill Fox
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont wa… read more
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16. Winter: Notes from Montana
By: Rick Bass , Elizabeth Hughes
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley. read more
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17. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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- nature
18. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
19. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
20. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nature
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
21. Troverai più nei boschi: Manuale per decifrare i segni e i misteri della natura
By: Francesco Boer
3.42
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Parcheggiamo in uno spiazzo di montagna, chiudiamo in auto le preoccupazioni e il ritmo frenetico d… read more
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