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Loved The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt? 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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    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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    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

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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

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    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

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    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

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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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    The Land of Little Rain

    Mary Austin · 1903 · Nature & Environment

    Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another

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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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