Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon

7 best books like Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon (John Hemming): Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Girt, One River, The Age of Missing Information, Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Author

Alexandra Fuller

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate....

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author	Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN	0670785938

A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...

Girt

Author	David Hunt
ISBN	1863956115

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ...

In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.
Girt introduces...

One River

Author	Wade Davis
ISBN	0684834960

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the...

The Age of Missing Information

Author

Bill McKibben

“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
——The New York Times

Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill...

Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat

Author	Sarah Outen
ISBN	1857886410

On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the Atlantic and eventually home. A year later, Sarah...