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

10 best books like North with the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey with the North American Spring (Edwin Way Teale): On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves), The Natural History of Selborne, A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sibley's Birding Basics, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, The Living Planet, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence

AuthorJonnie Hughes
ISBN1439110239
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth? Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps...
AuthorGilbert White
ISBN0140431128
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
Features the unique Peterson Identification System, which has never been surpassed as a tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Guides. "The Birder's Bible" for over sixty years. All the birds of eastern and central North America--including accidentals, exotics, and escapes--shown...
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
ISBN0375709665
David Sibley, America's premier birder an best-known bird artist, takes a new direction - in Sibley's Birding Basics he is concerned not so much with species as with the general characteristics that influence the appearance of all birds and thus give us the clues to their identity.

To create...
AuthorTom Bissell
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0292719701
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN0307342042
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563202076
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393)

Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and man thrive or survive within the extremes of climate and almost infinite variety of domicile which it offers. Single species and often whole communities, adapt to make the most of ice-cap and tundra,...
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0547248326
Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access to almost too much information, and their attempts to identify birds can be drowned out by excess detail. The all-new Kaufman Field...
AuthorAnne D. LeClaire
ISBN0061353353
“Listening Below the Noise offers readers the possibility of finding grace and peace in the natural world and in ourselves. Elegant and honest… one of those rare books that finds its way into our hearts, and stays there.” — Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

A meditation on silence,...
AuthorGeralyn Lucas
ISBN1592408958
The author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy dares all women who have had a stumble in life to harness their fighting spirit and stand back up with courage and optimism.
 
Twenty years ago, Geralyn Lucas put on red lipstick before entering the operating room to show everyone that she planned...
AuthorNational Audubon Society
ISBN0394507630
Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range,...
AuthorWilliam Souder
ISBN0865477264
"Truly wonderful . . . Excellent work."--Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books

In the century and a half since Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he was--or the dramatic story behind...
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0380717387
I promised a second review / rant about people I hate. This is it. This time it's Smug Environmentalists. The hate will manifest as the review goes on.

Natural Acts is a collection of essays, which mostly appeared originally in the authors column in "Outside" magazine. The essays mostly look...
AuthorSteve Jones
This the fourth of Steve Jones's series of books based on the works of Charles Darwin. Jones's Almost Like a Whale (1999) having been based on The Origin of Species (1859) which was followed by Y: The Descent of Men (2002), based on Darwin's Descent of Man (1871), and Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise ...
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0544986830
From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Heinrich finds himself at...
AuthorHerbert S. Zim
ISBN0307240533
This guide will help you identify -- quickly and easily -- the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you:
-- What to look for
-- Where and when to look
-- How to attract birdsRange maps show at a glance where each bird is found, and handy tables at the back of the book contain a wealth of additional...
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
AuthorJohn McPherson
ISBN1569756503
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD

“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival. Their...
When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
AuthorVivian Swift
ISBN1596914610
Following a lifetime of trekking across the globe, Vivian Swift, a freelance designer who racked up 23 temporary addresses in 20 years, finally dropped her well-worn futon mattress and rucksack in a small town on the edge of the Long Island Sound. She spent the next decade quietly taking stock of her...
Asimov's Guide to Science
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0465004725
As I see it, in many cases one is never educated with a big picture in the backdrop; instead, everyone hurries through complicated theories and equations only to finish off the current academic year. I wonder, when one would learn anything for the sake of learning; usually, in the later years, when already...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN0544558146
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream
AuthorKatharine Norbury
Part travelogue, part memoir, The Fish Ladder is a deeply moving story of an adoptee’s search for personal identity set against a backdrop of the finest British nature writing.

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew...
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