Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
10 best books like Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature (Kathleen Dean Moore): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, The Gone Dead, Practice of the Wild, The Dare Game, The Solace of Open Spaces, Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry, Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 1400050367 |
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.
From the tallest to the...
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
| Author | Lynn Margulis |
| ISBN | 0465072720 |
Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited...
| Author | Chanelle Benz |
| ISBN | 0062490699 |
An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death
Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0865474540 |
The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought,...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0440867584 |
I'M TRACY BEAKER, THE GREAT INVENTOR OF EXTREMELY OUTRAGEOUS DARES - AND I DARE YOU TO READ A MORE BRILLIANT STORY THAN THIS!
I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story. Of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned...
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0140081135 |
When I requested this title in NetGalley, I did not realize it was an older book of essays coming up for a reprinting. I actually have another book from the author on my "around the world" shelves at home - This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland. So she was on my vague periphery, but I was very happy to...
| Author | Christie Wilcox |
| ISBN | 0374712212 |
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry
From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the...
| Author | Roger Tory Peterson |
| ISBN | 0395864976 |
On an April day in 1953, renowned American naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue,...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0393338754 |
"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."—Washington Post
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman...
| Author | Rita Mae Brown |
| ISBN | 0345530500 |
Winter has come to Crozet, Virginia, bringing with it a fresh blanket of snow. Harry and her husband, Fair, are hip deep in their usual end-of-the-year activities: distributing food to needy residents, and shopping for outfits for the Silver Linings youth organization’s annual fundraising gala....
