A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich

5 best books like A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich (Bernd Heinrich): Changeling, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

Changeling

Author	William Ritter
ISBN	1616208392

Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind—a newborn changeling. But when the fateful night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s...

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Author	Rob Dunn
ISBN	1541645766

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the...

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Author

Ben Goldfarb

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...

The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

Author

David George Haskell

"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biological networks that give us our place in the world. Listen as David Haskell takes his stethoscope to the heart of nature - and discover the poetry and music contained...

The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

Author	John Connell
ISBN	1684574072

There are so many huge issues to write about that we forget that sometimes in writing about something small it gives one the freedom to contemplate deep musings on the things that matter most. If all you get from this book is a love and appreciation for farming and a suddenly intense desire to add a trip to...