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10 best books like The Life of Mammals (David Attenborough): In a Sunburned Country, Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day, Notes from a Small Island, Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, Riding the Iron Rooster, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"

In a Sunburned Country
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0767903862
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
AuthorWill Ferguson
ISBN1841952885
It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both. The resulting travelogue...
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1596912995
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.

It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and flying...
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0684856239
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
AuthorMo Willems
ISBN0786837470
ONE GRADUATE'S JOURNEY TO FIND HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD

In 1990, before embarking on his groundbreaking children's book career, Mo Willems packed a small bag and a sketchbook and set out to explore the world--by place, car, boat, bus, motorcycle, and rickshaw. At the end of each day, he drew a cartoon...
Notes from a Small Island
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0380727501
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently...
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
AuthorCynthia Moss
ISBN0226542378
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
Riding the Iron Rooster
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0804104549
3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:

(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading...
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
AuthorTim Mackintosh-Smith
ISBN0330491148
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"
AuthorP.J. O'Rourke
ISBN0802137016
Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence...alright, so things haven't changed all that much. Which is one reason why, after twenty...
Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
AuthorMark Carwardine
ISBN0007290721
Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine...
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805078916
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist

Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
Long Way Down
AuthorEwan McGregor
ISBN1847440533
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure...

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew...
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