Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
10 best books like Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country (Courtney White): The Life of Birds, Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, Jock of the Bushveld, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived, Strange Objects, Three Weeks in December, The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0563387920 |
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.
David Attenborough has been...
| Author | Nick Lane |
| ISBN | 0198607830 |
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
| Author | J. Percy FitzPatrick |
| ISBN | 0868520586 |
Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written and is dedicated by Fitzpatrick to '...those keenest and kindest of critics, best of friends and most...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
| Author | Delia Owens |
| ISBN | 0395680905 |
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
| Author | Ralph Helfer |
| ISBN | 0060761326 |
One day, Ralph Helfer, a celebrated animal behaviorist, received a surprising phone call. His close friends had found a young lion near death by the Zambezi River in Zambia and had rescued him and brought him back to the States. Ralph had often spoken of wanting to raise a lion from a young age -- he had been...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
| Author | Audrey Schulman |
| ISBN | 1609450647 |
In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked...
| Author | Claire Nouvian |
| ISBN | 0226595668 |
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters—the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where...
| Author | Wendy Williams |
| ISBN | 0810984652 |
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...
| Author | Samantha Weinberg |
| ISBN | 0060932856 |
Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve...
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
| Author | Douglas Botting |
| ISBN | 0786707968 |
Written with complete access to the Durrell family archives and Gerald Durrell's private papers, this affecting biography follows its subject from an eccentric boyhood in Imperial India to the international prominence he gained in print and on television as one of the world's foremost animal conservationists....
Penguin Random House Audio Story Sampler 2019
Available exclusively on Bookstore Day (April 27, 2019), the Penguin Random House Audio sampler features some of the most popular independent bookstore bestsellers:
Where the Crawdads Sing
By Delia Owens
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
By Marlon James
There There
By...
| Author | Laurens van der Post |
| ISBN | 0156301989 |
This was a rrreeeaaallllllyyy dark book at first, to be honest. I'd already seen the 1993 Walt Disney film, also dark (yes, Disney did have a film involving the massacre of multiple people, ivory poaching and plenty of cursing and swearing) but the book is all-the-more emotional about it. Still, it's...
