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Books like The Birds of America

Loved The Birds of America by John James Audubon? 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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    Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821 · Nature & Environment

    'Hegel's Philosophy of Right' concerns ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity and the political structure of the state. He shows how human freedom involves living with

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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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    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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    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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    Representative men

    Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800 · Nature & Environment

    An excellent book about some of the world's greatest men, including Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Napoleon and Goethe.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned image

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    Ungava, a tale of the Esquimaux land

    Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1800 · Nature & Environment

    Fictional account of the establishment of Fort Chimo, 1830, based on reminiscence by Nicol Finlayson.

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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 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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