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Books like Cape Cod

Loved Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau? 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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    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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    The variation of animals and plants under domestication

    Charles Darwin · 1868 · Nature & Environment

    During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus a

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    On the origin of species by means of natural selection

    Charles Darwin · 1859 · Nature & Environment

    Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection, based on evidence that he collected during his expedition on HMS Beagle in the 18

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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 descent of man

    Charles Darwin · 1871 · Nature & Environment

    The Descent of Man, Darwin's second landmark work on evolutionary theory (following The Origin of the Species), marked a turning point in the history of science with its modern vision of human nature

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    The expression of emotions in man and animals

    Charles Darwin · 1872 · Nature & Environment

    Many works have been written on Expression, but a greater number on Physiognomy, - that is, on the recognition of character through the study of the permanent form of the features. With this latter su

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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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    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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