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Books like A New Voyage Round the World
Loved A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier? 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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1
Silent Spring
The book that exposed the cost of pesticides and helped launch the environmental movement; calm and devastating.
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2
The Sixth Extinction
The mass extinction unfolding now, reported from the field; sobering, clear and Pulitzer-winning.
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The Naked Ape
Dans la même optique et avec le même vocabulaire que celui utilisé pour les animaux, une observation du comportement humain sous l'angle de la sexualité, de l'éducation, de la combativité et de la rec
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4
Novum organum
"When The New Organon appeared in 1620, as part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and
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5
Walden
Two years living simply by a pond; the founding text of American nature writing and self-reliance.
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6
Underland
A journey into the worlds beneath our feet, from caves to catacombs; gorgeous, profound nature writing.
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7
H Is for Hawk
Training a goshawk while grieving a father; a fierce, beautiful memoir of nature and loss.
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8
The Hidden Life of Trees
How forests communicate and cooperate; a charming popular-science look at the woods.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A year of close, ecstatic attention to a Virginia valley; meditative nature writing of the highest order.
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10
A Girl of the Limberlost
Wherein Elnora goes to high school and learns many lessons not found in her books