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Books like The trail book

Loved The trail book by Mary Austin? 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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  1. 1

    Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson · 1962 · Nature & Environment

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

  2. 2

    The Sixth Extinction

    Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014 · Nature & Environment

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

  3. 3

    The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 · Nature & Environment

    The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt.

  4. 4

    Mother West Wind's children

    Thornton W. Burgess · 1911 · Nature & Environment

    Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.

  5. 5

    My first summer in the Sierra

    John Reid Muir · 1911 · Nature & Environment

    Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author

  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    A Girl of the Limberlost

    Gene Stratton-Porter · 1909 · Nature & Environment

    Wherein Elnora goes to high school and learns many lessons not found in her books

  8. 8

    Journal

    Henry David Thoreau · 1906 · Nature & Environment

    The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau{u2019}s voluminou

  9. 9

    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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    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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