12 Best history books like The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare

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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

By: Erika Howsare

3.79

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee…

"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."

-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."

-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

If you liked the history plot in The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Kenn Kaufman's Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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

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2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • science
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

3. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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4. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

Similar categories in Dan Egan's The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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5. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Renner's Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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7. Ten Birds That Changed the World

By: Stephen Moss

3.97

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's Ten Birds That Changed the World book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

8. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare

9. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

By: Erika Howsare

3.79

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee… read more

Similar categories in Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • anthropology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."

-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

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10. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
Cover of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa

11. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

12. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Dickie's Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Cover of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin  Herold

13. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet

14. 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

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe by Carl Safina

15. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

By: Carl Safina

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more

Similar categories in Carl Safina's Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

16. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

17. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

18. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

Similar categories in John O’Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert

19. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen

20. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

By: Benjamin Breen

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bold and brilliant revisionist  take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Breen's Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • science
  • history
  • anthropology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin  Graham

21. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Graham's Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist book and Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

18 Best audiobook books like The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare

Transform Your Habits

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Rebecca Renner

3.81

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11 best-selling adult books like The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

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