Nature category: 119170 books
Flow
Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex dynamics of flow that structures...
The Mushroom Hunters
On the Trail of an Underground America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod—a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient . . . and one of nature’s last truly...
The Wood for the Trees
One Man's Long View of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence
A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the...
Urban Forests
A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
**“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” *—*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
“Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and...
Wicked Plants
The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill,...
Flower Confidential
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers...
by Nick Jans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“Jans is an exceptional storyteller—no nature writer can top him in terms of sheer emotional force.” —New York Times
A Wolf Called Romeo is the true story of the exceptional black wolf who spent seven years interacting with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska, living on the edges...
by Robert Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS
'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent
'Enormously...
The Swamp
The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller...
Kings of the Yukon
One Summer Paddling Across the Far North
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
"Kings of the Yukon succeeds as an adventure tale, a natural history and a work of art." -- Wall Street Journal
A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth
The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing...
The God Species
Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms and dominates the major forces of nature.
But from the water cycle to the circulation of nitrogen and carbon through...
by Sue Hubbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book: “A melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual” (Kirkus Reviews).
Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, author Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the...
The Big Year
A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, grueling, expensive, and occasionally vicious, "extreme" 365-day marathon of birdwatching.
For three men in particular, 1998 would be a whirlwind,...