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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

10 best books like This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Gretel Ehrlich): Of Wolves and Men, Underland, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, Pigs in Heaven, The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post, Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places, Wild: An Elemental Journey, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, The Lost Words, Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

Of Wolves and Men
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0684163225
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.

Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection....
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN0140317201
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending!

Two clans of robbers, enemies for as long as the two chiefs Mattis and Borka can remember, share a forest and a castle split in two by a giant lightning, and a common enemy in the knights of the crown. Bad-mannered, ill-tempered, violent and boastful,...
Pigs in Heaven
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
ISBN0571171788
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.

Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has...
The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post
AuthorThe Washington Post
ISBN1982129735
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available.

Read the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying...
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
AuthorBill Streever
ISBN0316042919
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree...
Wild: An Elemental Journey
AuthorJay Griffiths
In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest...
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
AuthorRoger Deakin
ISBN0241141842
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element"as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies...
The Lost Words
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0241253586
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world

All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world...
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
AuthorRoger Deakin
ISBN0241144205
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated...
A Sideways Look at Time
AuthorJay Griffiths
ISBN1585423068
A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.

Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In...
Landmarks
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...
Min kamp 4
AuthorKarl Ove Knausgård
ISBN8249507142
Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn én forstand: Min kamp blir utgitt som seks romaner. Første, andre og tredje bok utkom høsten 2009. Fjerde, femte og sjette bok utkommer våren 2010. Etter tre år på gymnaset i Kristiansand reiser...
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