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Books like The variation of animals and plants under domestication

Loved The variation of animals and plants under domestication by Charles Darwin? 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

    Rachel Carson · 1962 · Nature & Environment

    The book that exposed the cost of pesticides and helped launch the environmental movement; calm and devastating.

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    The Sixth Extinction

    Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014 · Nature & Environment

    The mass extinction unfolding now, reported from the field; sobering, clear and Pulitzer-winning.

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    Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism

    Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · 1868 · Nature & Environment

    "Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals and long known to English-speaking readers as Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, Facundo

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    Cape Cod

    Henry David Thoreau · 1864 · Nature & Environment

    Thoreau's account of his travels and explorations on Cape Cod is considered his most genial book, and one of his most appealing. Published in 1865 after his death, Thoreau's CAPE COD remains an indisp

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    The gorilla hunters

    Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1858 · Nature & Environment

    Three English boys, shipwrecked on a deserted island, create an idyllic society despite typhoons, sharks, wild hogs, and hostile visitors, and then pirates kidnap one of the boys, whose adventures con

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    The song of Hiawatha

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1855 · Nature & Environment

    From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

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    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · Nature & Environment

    Two years living simply by a pond; the founding text of American nature writing and self-reliance.

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    The story of my heart

    Richard Jefferies · 1883 · Nature & Environment

    While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jeffe

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    Frygt og Bæven

    Søren Kierkegaard · 1843 · Nature & Environment

    Frygt og Bæven er et filosofisk værk af Søren Kierkegaard, udgivet 16. oktober 1843 under pseudonymet Johannes de Silentio. Værket er en udvidet meditation over Mosebog 22, også kendt som Isaks bindin

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    Natural law in the spiritual world

    Henry Drummond · 1835 · Nature & Environment

    The Scottish evangelical author writer Henry Drummond argues in Natural Law in the Spiritual World that the scientific principle of continuity extends beyond our physical world into the spiritual. Aft

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