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Books like Under the sea-wind

Loved Under the sea-wind by Rachel Carson? 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

  1. 1

    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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    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

  3. 3

    Ring of bright water

    Gavin Maxwell · 1960 · Nature & Environment

    A marvellous book about life in a West Highland seaboard cottage with two otters, Mijbil and Edal.

  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

    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

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    The trail book

    Mary Austin · 1918 · Nature & Environment

    In the New York Museum of Natural History, two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical travels through

  7. 7

    The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 · Nature & Environment

    The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt.

  8. 8

    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.

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    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

  10. 10

    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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