Orion Book Award

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The Orion Book Award was founded in 2007 to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing.
Stages:
Alle, Winner (12), Finalist (44)
Categorieën:
Alle, Fictie (8), Non-fictie (9), Geen categorie (39)
Jaren:
Alle, 2016 (4), 2015 (9), 2014 (8), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5)

Winner 12

WerkCategorieJaar
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness door Sy Montgomery2016
De bijen door Laline PaullFiction2015
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life door George MonbiotNonfiction2015
MaddAddam: A Novel door Margaret AtwoodFiction2014
Sightlines door Kathleen JamieNonfiction2014
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth door Craig Childs2013
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World door Carl Safina2012
Insectopedie door Hugh Raffles2011
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future door Charles Bowden2010
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land door Amy Irvine2009
Antonina's dierentuin : een oorlogsverhaal in Warschau door Diane Ackermann2008
Wild: An Elemental Journey door Jay Griffiths2007

Finalist 44

WerkCategorieJaar
The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America door Summer Brennan2016
De H is van havik door Helen Macdonald2016
A river runs again : India's natural world in crisis door Meera Subramanian2016
Long Man door Amy GreeneFiction2015
Invisible Beasts door Sharona MuirFiction2015
Divine Animal door Scott Russell SandersFiction2015
Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit door Alison Hawthorne DemingNonfiction2015
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming door McKenzie FunkNonfiction2015
A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World door Jay GriffithsNonfiction2015
Het zesde uitsterven hoe de mens even catastrofaal is als de asteroïde die de dinosauriërs wegveegde door Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2015
All the Land to Hold Us: A Novel door Rick BassFiction2014
The Last Animal door Abby GeniFiction2014
Archipelago door Monique RoffeyFiction2014
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild door Lyanda Lynn HauptNonfiction2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants door Robin Wall KimmererNonfiction2014
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? door Alan WeismanNonfiction2014
Vlieggedrag door Barbara Kingsolver2013
Things That Are door Amy Leach2013
De oude wegen : een voetreis door Robert Macfarlane2013
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry door Joe Wilkins2013
Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout door Philip Connors2012
Oil on Water door Helon Habila2012
Swamplandia! door Karen Russell2012
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) door Sandra Steingraber2012
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology door David Abram2011
About a Mountain door John D'Agata2011
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival door John Vaillant2011
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean door Julia Whitty2011
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World door Wade Davis2010
Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape door Richard Manning2010
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.) door Lydia Peelle2010
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature door Curtis White2010
De laatste wildernis door Robert Macfarlane2009
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability door James Gustave Speth2009
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies door Ginger Strand2009
Finding Beauty in a Broken World door Terry Tempest Williams2009
Strange as this Weather Has Been door Ann Pancake2008
The Wild Trees door Richard Preston2008
Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place door Robert Michael Pyle2008
De wereld zonder ons door Alan Weisman2008
The Lives of Rocks door Rick Bass2007
Inferno door Charles Bowden2007
Returning to Earth door Jim Harrison2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals door Michael Pollan2007

Beschrijvingen

The Orion Book Award was founded in 2007 to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing. (English, Door lid geschreven)
The Orion Book Award is given annually to a book that addresses the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought provoking, and engaging manner. Four additional books are named as finalists. Books eligible for the Orion Book Award are judged against these criteria: • That it deepens our connection to the natural world • That it presents new ideas about our relationship with nature • That it achieves excellence in writing The Orion Book Award recognizes books published in North America during the previous calendar year. Nominations for the award are made by advisors, writers, editors, and contributing editors of Orion. Selection of the winning book and four finalists are made by a five-person selection committee, which changes annually. Nominations from authors or from publishers, editors, or agents of books that they have been involved with are not accepted. More information about previous Orion Book Award winners and finalists is available here. (English, Door lid geschreven)

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