Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most …
Want to Read $ 9.30"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
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1. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
2. The Goshawk
By: T.H. White , Marie Winn
3.83
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T.H. White, the author of The Once and Future … read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
"What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind…"-T.H. White, The Goshawk
3. In the Company of Crows and Ravens
By: John M. Marzluff , Tony Angell , Paul R. Ehrlich
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to t… read more
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4. One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
By: Bernd Heinrich
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering… read more
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5. 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
- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"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
6. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
By: Thor Hanson
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 1… read more
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7. 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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8. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
By: Noah Strycker
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more
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9. The Dream Stalker (Wind River Reservation, #3)
By: Margaret Coel
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
A white Jesuit priest and an Indian woman lawyer hunt for a murderer while keeping mutual attractio… read more
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10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
11. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
12. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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- memoir
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- environment
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"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
13. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- nature
- audiobook
14. 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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- audiobook
- nature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
15. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
By: Scott Weidensaul
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
16. 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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- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
17. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- animals
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- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
18. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
19. The (Big) Year That Flew By
By: Arjan Dwarshuis
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An epic tale of one passionate birder’s record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 conti… read more
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- audiobook
20. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
By: Rebecca Heisman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
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21. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
22. Puhe eläinten puolesta
By: Elisa Aaltola
4.03
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Kiitetty kirjailija, tutkija ja filosofi Elisa Aaltola pureutuu kirjassaan Puhe eläinten puolesta s… read more
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- animals
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23. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
By: Adam Nicolson
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonish… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
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- science
24. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our … read more
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- animals
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25. The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons… read more
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- animals
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- nonfiction
- environment
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- science
"[Tacitus] noted that the penalty for someone who dared peel the bark of a living tree (and thus kill the tree) was to have his navel cut out and nailed to the tree and then be driven around the tree …"-John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
26. Livets tunna väggar
By: Nina Burton
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Den stora naturtomten hade en levande atmosfär. På sydsidan klättrade ett mossigt litet berg bland… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
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27. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
By: Jessica J. Lee
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more
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28. A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bir… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- environment
- nature
- science
"On a day like this, I can’t imagine anything better that might happen in a person’s life than for them to start paying attention to birds—to become aware of this magical world that exists all around …"-Kenn Kaufman, A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
29. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
30. Slime: A Natural History
By: Susanne Wedlich
3.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion … read more
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31. Woodswoman
By: Anne LaBastille
4.35
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
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