The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals

6 best books like The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals (Patrick Barkham): Doctor No, Melmoth, Whit, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America, The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

Doctor No

Author	Ian Fleming
ISBN	0142002038

The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter.

Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over.

On...

Melmoth

Author

Sarah Perry

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.

It...

Whit

Author	Iain Banks
ISBN	0316914363

I'm a sucker for fictional religions, and Banks is brilliant at inventing them. Luskentyrianism is his best effort yet. If the thing you liked most in Cat's Cradle was Bokononism, you may well enjoy this book too. The charming young heroine, Isis, is the Elect of God, and terribly matter-of-fact about...

The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

Author	Adam Nicolson
ISBN	1250134188

Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...

Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America

Author	Adrian Forsyth
ISBN	0684187108

This book is written by two biologists who spent a lot of time in the tropical rain forests of central and south America. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to a different subject in the forests, and can be read independently.

Anyone who is curious about the nature world , would be thrilled by...

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

Author	Richard Fortey
ISBN	0008104662

From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape.

‘The woods are the great beauty...