Recommended Nature Writing

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Het verborgen leven van bomen

door Peter Wohlleben

3,610 leden

114 besprekingen

4

25 Members: LynnB, charl08, kleo, RSard, souci, FAMeulstee, elenchus, Heather39, EMS_24, NorthernTeacher, -Cee-, SonoranDreamer, starbox, gylafowler, Lynsey2, barefootsong, SoccerMomKnits, aspirit, danbennett, maschi, steller0707, nankuo, Drapetsona, Glenda60, RaeCreated, ,eronn
Verklaringen: eronn : accidental, should be a thumbs UP

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Tot in de hemel

door Richard Powers

5,391 leden

244 besprekingen

4.1

16 Members: karenb, Hanno, paradoxosalpha, mooingzelda, charl08, claire.rivers, LDVoorberg, CDay, NorthernTeacher, igorken, 13west, kara.shamy, Lynsey2, steller0707, nankuo, RaeCreated

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Silent Spring

door Rachel Carson

6,550 leden

98 besprekingen

4

12 Members: hailelib, stretch, TheDivineOomba, DetailMuse, CDay, PaperbackPirate, birder4106, eronn, -Cee-, vwinsloe, steller0707, elahrairah

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

door Elisabeth Tova Bailey

1,303 leden

94 besprekingen

4.2

11 Members: DetailMuse, raidergirl3, krazy4katz, CoriatLib, Heather39, perennialreader, -Cee-, gylafowler, SoccerMomKnits, Booksplorer, Tosta
Verklaringen: krazy4katz: I had forgotten this book until I saw it listed here and went back to my library to find it. One of the most beautiful books I have ever read!
perennialreader: Such a simple book and so delightful.

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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

door Aldo Leopold

4,404 leden

59 besprekingen

4.2

10 Members: lorax, stretch, mldg, PaperbackPirate, elenchus, Heather39, perennialreader, emglider, steller0707, Tosta
Verklaringen: perennialreader: As relevant today as when it was published.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

door Robin Wall Kimmerer

4,142 leden

118 besprekingen

½ 4.5

10 Members: southernbooklady, raidergirl3, norabelle414, dudes22, Heather39, SonoranDreamer, bereanna, barefootsong, macpherson.lj, nankuo,arethusarose

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De H is van havik

door Helen Macdonald

4,367 leden

281 besprekingen

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, LynnB, etxgardener, charl08, CDay, -Cee-, Kristelh, vwinsloe, Lynsey2, Charon07

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Mĳn familie & andere beesten

door Gerald Durrell

5,267 leden

150 besprekingen

4.2

8 Members: arethusarose, etxgardener, shelfoflisa, CarltonC, Maddz, ahef1963, Michael.Rimmer, barefootsong

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Mijn tweede natuur

door Michael Pollan

1,574 leden

32 besprekingen

3.9

9 Members: tardis, DetailMuse, CorneliusNepos, claire.rivers, dhm, CDay, sturlington, perennialreader, gylafowler
Verklaringen: perennialreader: Wonderful way of looking at nature and our relationship to the earth.

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Voor het te laat is, een expeditieverhaal

door Douglas Adams

4,121 leden

83 besprekingen

4.2

8 Members: ursula, hipdeep, norabelle414, NorthernTeacher, al.vick, Cora-R, maschi, RaeCreated
Verklaringen: al.vick: Endangered animals, reasons for conservation, and Douglas Adams humor. How could you go wrong? If you have not read this, you are really missing a gem!

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

door Barbara Kingsolver

7,669 leden

259 besprekingen

4.1

9 Members: dudes22, PaperbackPirate, sturlington, 13west, Lynsey2, emglider, SoccerMomKnits, macpherson.lj, Tosta,arethusarose ,etxgardener

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walden

door Henry David Thoreau

14,150 leden

192 besprekingen

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, SilentInAWay, dhm, jburlinson, FAMeulstee, shelfoflisa, gypsysmom, kristilabrie
Verklaringen: kristilabrie: One of my first loves in nature writing. An early favorite.

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Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

door Isabella Tree

477 leden

12 besprekingen

½ 4.4

7 Members: farflungfish, mikej, Willoyd, NorthernTeacher, bereanna, gylafowler, elahrairah

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Terug in Amerika

door Bill Bryson

16,898 leden

475 besprekingen

4

8 Members: hipdeep, arethusarose, shelfoflisa, 13west, emglider, maschi, TheStonedMason, Tosta,EMS_24

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De botanica van het verlangen de wereld gezien door de ogen van planten

door Michael Pollan

5,324 leden

153 besprekingen

4

7 Members: LynnB, DetailMuse, PaperbackPirate, skyrad43, sturlington, megbmore, Lynsey2

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

door Edward Abbey

3,935 leden

88 besprekingen

4.2

7 Members: Hanno, stretch, dhm, CarltonC, gylafowler, danbennett, Tosta

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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

door David George Haskell

612 leden

17 besprekingen

4.2

5 Members: Bookmarque, pondelro, LDVoorberg, catascott, RaeCreated

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Geef mij maar een boom in de wildernis

door Jean Craighead George

11,851 leden

148 besprekingen

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5 Members: casvelyn, PaperbackPirate, ahef1963, suvrose, MaryEK

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Waterschapsheuvel

door Richard Adams

24,933 leden

472 besprekingen

4.2

6 Members: LynnB, EerierIdyllMeme, pondelro, skyrad43, NorthernTeacher, elahrairah,alsocass

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Oog in oog met chimpansees

door Jane Goodall

714 leden

13 besprekingen

4.2

4 Members: CoriatLib, al.vick, ahef1963, LibraryCin

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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

door Henry Beston

944 leden

30 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: hailelib, lilithcat, CDay, vwinsloe
Verklaringen: lilithcat: My review says it all: https://www.librarything.com/work/160624/reviews/531710

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Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

door Barry Lopez

311 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.3

4 Members: 13west, aileverte, MM_Jones, danbennett

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The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert

door Craig Childs

324 leden

11 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: lorax, eronn, SonoranDreamer, jwk

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Landmarks

door Robert Macfarlane

859 leden

15 besprekingen

4.2

4 Members: charl08, dhm, ghr4, Jeanettelth

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De geheimzinnige Noordpool

door Barry Lopez

1,955 leden

40 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: janoorani24, SilentInAWay, jwk, danbennett
Verklaringen: janoorani24: A mesmerizing exploration of the Arctic landscape.

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De vreugde van het landleven dagboek van een Engelse dame uit 1906

door Edith Holden

1,834 leden

10 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: Lirleni, shelfoflisa, emglider, barefootsong

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The Wild Trees

door Richard Preston

1,201 leden

57 besprekingen

4

4 Members: Stbalbach, eronn, 13west, RaeCreated

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The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

door N. K. Jemisin

398 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, mikej, susanbooks, ahef1963, steller0707,Hanno ,arethusarose ,alsocass
Verklaringen: susanbooks: Not explicitly nature writing, but implicitly so: a story of what happens, eras later, when humanity's resource extraction has run amok.

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Zomer van overvloed

door Barbara Kingsolver

9,005 leden

196 besprekingen

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4 Members: LDVoorberg, crittergirl, LibraryCin, kara.shamy,Hanno

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

door Peter Godfrey-Smith

1,831 leden

64 besprekingen

3.8

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, elenchus, Treebeard_404

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Benedenwereld

door Robert Macfarlane

1,680 leden

55 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: igorken, jsedey, captainsunbeam

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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

door Thor Hanson

321 leden

11 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: lorax, Bookmarque, CoriatLib

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Mijn huis heeft vensters op zee

door Gavin Maxwell

936 leden

23 besprekingen

4

3 Members: jlshall, Oandthegang, kristybrysonedits

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Over het ontstaan van soorten door natuurlijke selectie ofwel het bewaard blijven van rassen die in het voordeel zijn in de strijd om het bestaan

door Charles Darwin

14,398 leden

120 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: mikej, FAMeulstee, birder4106
Verklaringen: birder4106: Bücherlisten über die Natur ohne Darwin, Wegener und Wallace: undenkbar!

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The Natural History of Selborne

door Gilbert White

955 leden

9 besprekingen

3.8

3 Members: abbottthomas, Oandthegang, aileverte

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Under the Sea-Wind

door Rachel Carson

688 leden

11 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: lilithcat, CoriatLib, spiphany
Verklaringen: lilithcat: Henry Beston, whose book The Outermost House I recommended here, gave this one high praise. So do I.
spiphany: Not as well known today, but more representative of Carson's nature writing than Silent Spring

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Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

door Bernd Heinrich

260 leden

7 besprekingen

4

3 Members: DetailMuse, Comatoes, Treebeard_404
Verklaringen: Comatoes: How does death announce itself in nature? This book describes death in numinous ways.

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Waterspiegelingen

door Annie Dillard

5,491 leden

105 besprekingen

4.2

3 Members: SilentInAWay, jlshall, Heather39

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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

door Robin Wall Kimmerer

882 leden

25 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: raidergirl3, CaitZ, jakebornheimer

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The Outrun

door Amy Liptrot

456 leden

19 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: mooingzelda, CarltonC, kara.shamy

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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

door Lawrence Anthony

768 leden

43 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: CoriatLib, vwinsloe, Cora-R

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Wee de wolf

door Farley Mowat

2,715 leden

63 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: tardis, EerierIdyllMeme, ahef1963

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Remarkable Creatures

door Tracy Chevalier

3,227 leden

226 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: hailelib, raidergirl3, perennialreader
Verklaringen: perennialreader: Mary Anning is a fossil hunter with a passion for her work. One of the most interesting female scientist.

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Lab Girl

door Hope Jahren

2,640 leden

158 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: LynnB, alsocass, Kristelh,arethusarose

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Het verhaal van onze voorouders een pelgrimstocht naar de oorsprong van het leven

door Richard Dawkins

4,351 leden

74 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: EerierIdyllMeme, dhm

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

door Sy Montgomery

2,327 leden

114 besprekingen

3.8

2 Members: laruebk, Charon07

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De slechtvalk

door J. A. Baker

819 leden

16 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: uru, Lyttlefold

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North with the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000 Mile Journey with the North American Spring

door Edwin Way Teale

258 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 4.5

2 Members: LamSon, Richj

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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts

door Jessica J. Lee

154 leden

4 besprekingen

½ 3.5

2 Members: victoriapeak, JKWood

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Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness

door Doug Peacock

68 leden

2 besprekingen

4

2 Members: douggob, jwk

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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

door Craig Childs

356 leden

11 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: rshart3, eronn

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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

door Tom Wessels

301 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 4.4

2 Members: Bookmarque, kristilabrie
Verklaringen: kristilabrie: We used this book in my Natural History course at UMO: such beautiful illustrations and illustrative writing, I still follow these concepts on my nature hikes.

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Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly

door Sue Halpern

169 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 3.7

2 Members: perennialreader, mgnm
Verklaringen: perennialreader: Great information about the complicated world of monarch migration.

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Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned American Original

door Dayton O. Hyde

78 leden

2 besprekingen

4

2 Members: pickupf, RailMilFic
Verklaringen: pickupf: See review by LT member jeane. "Don Coyote" was a ground-breaking wildlife study in 1986, and the American Library Association named it one of the ten top books of the decade."

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Speak to the Earth: Pages From a Farmwife's Journal

door Rachel Peden

47 leden

5

2 Members: casvelyn, jennyduncan

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Het hart van alle dingen

door Elizabeth Gilbert

3,483 leden

196 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: bjappleg8, kara.shamy

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The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

door Loren Eiseley

947 leden

14 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: mikej, JulieStielstra

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Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs

door Sue Hubbell

272 leden

4 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: mldg, mgnm

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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

door Diane Ackerman

156 leden

3.9

2 Members: CaitZ, Sternmelissar

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Browsing Nature's Aisles: A Year of Foraging for Wild Food in the Suburbs

door Wendy Brown

32 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 3.3

2 Members: suvrose, jennyduncan

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Field Guide to Birds of North America

door Edward S. Brinkley

166 leden

1 bespreking

4.2

2 Members: tardis, kristilabrie
Verklaringen: tardis: Field guides are a key way of enhancing one's knowledge and appreciation of nature. I love them.
kristilabrie: Yes it's a field guide—not sure if I'm bending the rules here—but I use this book so often, I LOVE birding and checking off new species in the back.

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