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Books like The Worst Journey in the World
Loved The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from nature & environment, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Silent Spring
The book that exposed the cost of pesticides and helped launch the environmental movement; calm and devastating.
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The Sixth Extinction
The mass extinction unfolding now, reported from the field; sobering, clear and Pulitzer-winning.
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The trail book
In the New York Museum of Natural History, two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical travels through
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The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt.
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Mother West Wind's children
Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
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My first summer in the Sierra
Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Wherein Elnora goes to high school and learns many lessons not found in her books
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Journal
The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau{u2019}s voluminou
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The Land of Little Rain
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another
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Under the sea-wind
Rachel Carson--pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring--opens our eyes to the wonders of the natural world in her groundbreaking paean to the sea. 2016 marks the 75th Anniversary of th