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Books like Ring of bright water

Loved Ring of bright water by Gavin Maxwell? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from nature & environment, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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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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    Never Cry Wolf

    Farley Mowat · 1963 · Nature & Environment

    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

  4. 4

    Watership Down

    Richard Adams · 1972 · Nature & Environment

    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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    Biogeography

    C. Barry Cox · 1973 · Nature & Environment

    "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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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    Annie Dillard · 1974 · Nature & Environment

    A year of close, ecstatic attention to a Virginia valley; meditative nature writing of the highest order.

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    Kometen kommer (Kometjakten)

    Tove Jansson · 1946 · Nature & Environment

    A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what to do! Will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets out on an expedition that promises to b

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    Under the sea-wind

    Rachel Carson · 1941 · Nature & Environment

    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

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    The Worst Journey in the World

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922 · Nature & Environment

    The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatmen

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    Wish You Well

    David Baldacci · 2000 · Nature & Environment

    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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