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10 best books like The Geography of Childhood (Gary Paul Nabhan): Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Hiking Day, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, Dragonfly, Winter Is Coming, Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0393346617
“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
AuthorRichard Louv
ISBN1565125223
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684827123
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
Hiking Day
AuthorAnne Rockwell
ISBN1481427377
Beloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates nature and the outdoors with a gorgeous new picture book about a child’s first mountain hike!

A young girl and her family go hiking up a nearby mountain for the very first time. As they climb up and up the path, they see everything from a friendly toad...
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
AuthorFlorence Williams
ISBN0393355578
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection...
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
AuthorMichelle Kuo
Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy...
Dragonfly
AuthorLeila Meacham
ISBN1538733986
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman,...
Winter Is Coming
AuthorTony Johnston
ISBN1442472510
“A quiet, beautiful picture book to share.” —Booklist (starred review)

“This gentle, lyrical celebration of the natural world will reward similarly observant readers.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A touching reminder about the beauty of the natural world.”...
Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest
AuthorDavid Guterson
Reflections on life and landscape expressed in elegant verse By the New York Times best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars
Beautiful, illustrated package
Most outdoor enthusiasts understand the phrase "turn around time" as that point in an adventure when you must cease heading out...
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places
AuthorJulian Hoffman
All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from Kent to Glasgow to India to America, they are disappearing.

Irreplaceable is not...
Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
AuthorCaroline Woodward
ISBN1550177273
From publisher's website:
In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing...
Alone on the Wall
AuthorAlex Honnold
ISBN0393356140
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing...
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
AuthorM.R. O'Connor
ISBN1250096960
At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.

In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to...
Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest
AuthorSharon Wood
ISBN1680512625
Memoir of an elite alpinist Authentic story of rising above limitations to realize your potential In 1986, Sharon Wood was part of a self-supported Canadian team with big ambitions: they were attempting to reach the summit of Everest via a variation on the dangerous West Ridge. And they intended that...
The Peacock Summer
AuthorHannah Richell
ISBN1409152219
EXCERPT: All those versions of herself she has lived. So many different Lillians, all in this one body. If she could reach back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would she say? What would she tell that sorrowful girl standing in a London graveyard scattering earth onto the lid of her...
Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
AuthorElizabeth Willard Thames
ISBN0062668153
The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband and...
Poems
AuthorMaya Angelou
ISBN0553255762
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,  sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and  celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In  this moving volume of poetry, we hear the  multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and  vibrant writers of our time..
Simple Organizing: 50 Ways to Clear the Clutter
AuthorMelissa Michaels
ISBN0736963154
Bring Order and Purpose to Every Room in Your Home

Getting organized can feel like an impossible task. But it doesn't have to be complicated. The things you actually use need a designated home. The rest of the stuff is clutter and needs to be removed. Once you've determined which is which, order...
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