Ring of Bright Water
10 best books like Ring of Bright Water (Gavin Maxwell): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves, All Things Wise and Wonderful, From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, From the Dust Returned, Tarka the Otter, Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, Gregor the Overlander Box Set, Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0316881791 |
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou...
All Things Wise and Wonderful
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312335288 |
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series
Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
| Author | Jay Kopelman |
| ISBN | 1592289800 |
When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire.
What they find during the U.S -led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth," however, is not an insurgent bent on revenge, but...
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0515056170 |
Farley Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed trees and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered...
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0743429982 |
Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes...
| Author | Henry Williamson |
| ISBN | 0807085073 |
This is the life story of an otter called Tarka that means "Water Wanderer." What I like about this book is that I was able to learn so many things about an animal that I have not seen in the real world. I do not even remember seeing one in a number of zoos, both local and overseas, that I have so far been to.
The...
| Author | Roger Fouts |
| ISBN | 0380728222 |
For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals....
| Author | Suzanne Collins |
| ISBN | 0545166810 |
When Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats--but the fragile peace is about to fall apart.
Gregor...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0743200268 |
Scientists call them "Inia geoffrensis," an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are "botos," shape shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim your soul and take you to the Encante, an enchanted...
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships --...
| Author | Nicholas Johnson |
| ISBN | 0922915997 |
When Johnson went to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in support of the national interest in the Antarctic), he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins and lofty-minded scientists. Instead, he found boredom, alcohol and bureaucracy. As a dishwasher...
| Author | Biruté M.F. Galdikas |
| ISBN | 0316301868 |
From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted...
Forever Free: Elsa's Pride
| Author | Joy Adamson |
| ISBN | 0006328857 |
I've given this book 3/5 as I did with its prequels. Devastated by Elsa death and gutted by ending as it just kind of hit a wall and never got to find out what happened with cubs but I suppose that can't be helped. slightly easier to read than the previous two books but still annoyed by some of the unnecessary...
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict
| Author | Peter Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0312240503 |
This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes...
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
| Author | Azadeh Moaveni |
| ISBN | 1586483781 |
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
| Author | Jill Heinerth |
| ISBN | 0062691546 |
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...
Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten
| Author | Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson |
Bli med inn i insektenes forunderlige verden! For hvert menneske som lever på jorden, finnes det 200 millioner insekter. Insektene er overalt - i skogen og i enga, i bekken og i parken. De lever i seks tusen meters høyde, i de dypeste grotter, i døpefonter, inne i datamaskiner og i hvalrossens nesebor....
