If you liked
Books like The Sixth Extinction
Loved The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert? 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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2
H Is for Hawk
Training a goshawk while grieving a father; a fierce, beautiful memoir of nature and loss.
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The Hidden Life of Trees
How forests communicate and cooperate; a charming popular-science look at the woods.
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Underland
A journey into the worlds beneath our feet, from caves to catacombs; gorgeous, profound nature writing.
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Baby Einstein
Lush photographs of animals from all over the world introduce children to the wonders of nature and stimulate their interest in the world around them. Baby Noah builds on children's natural curiosity
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Wish You Well
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A year of close, ecstatic attention to a Virginia valley; meditative nature writing of the highest order.
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Biogeography
"Biologists searching for a resource that explores all of the exciting changes that have occurred recently in the field will turn to this eighth edition. It offers insight into the multidisciplinary n
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9
Watership Down
Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult
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Never Cry Wolf
Biologist Farley Mowat was dropped into Eskimo lands by the Canadian Government, that was looking for an excuse to eradicate wolves. What he discovered instead was astonishing. The Eskimos were listen