Women Writers on the Environment, Nature, Exploration, and Nature Travel

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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,321 ratings
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Ceremony
Ceremony 3.84 avg rating — 25,794 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,505 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,049 ratings
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Sola: One Woman's Journey Alone Across South America
Sola: One Woman's Journey Alone Across South America
by: Amy Field
4.09 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain 4.28 avg rating — 8,432 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 239,018 ratings
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As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas) 4.58 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World 4.28 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change 3.62 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West
Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West 3.99 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain 3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating — 8,858 ratings
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Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather 3.84 avg rating — 798 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Holy the Firm
Holy the Firm 4.20 avg rating — 5,327 ratings
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H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,926 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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The Cloister Walk
The Cloister Walk 4.05 avg rating — 8,887 ratings
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Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time 3.92 avg rating — 18,313 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art 4.38 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,903 ratings
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Wild Flower Walker: A Pilgrimage to Nature on the Bibbulmun Track
Wild Flower Walker: A Pilgrimage to Nature on the Bibbulmun Track 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
by: Ann Göth
4.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,533 ratings
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Moody Forest
Moody Forest 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective
Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land 4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North 3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food 4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants 3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us 4.17 avg rating — 4,838 ratings
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Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home
Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home 4.16 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance
Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating — 14,019 ratings
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Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks
Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks 4.25 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Daffodil: Biography of a Flower
Daffodil: Biography of a Flower 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Cross Creek
Cross Creek 4.05 avg rating — 2,614 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity 4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos 3.84 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior 3.82 avg rating — 100,171 ratings
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Alligator Crossing
Alligator Crossing 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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All Things Breath Alike: A Wildlife Anthology
All Things Breath Alike: A Wildlife Anthology 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
Tales from the Queen of the Desert 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories (Florida Sand Dollar Books) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice: Different Pathways, Common Lessons
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice: Different Pathways, Common Lessons 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Life in the Garden
Life in the Garden 3.58 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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The Everglades: River of Grass
The Everglades: River of Grass 4.15 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey 4.13 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient 4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
Cherry Ingram
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Solace of Open Spaces
The Solace of Open Spaces 4.11 avg rating — 7,205 ratings
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River of the Golden Ibis (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
River of the Golden Ibis (Florida Sand Dollar Books) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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The Hidden World of the Fox
The Hidden World of the Fox 3.80 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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The Word for Woman Is Wilderness
The Word for Woman Is Wilderness 3.62 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
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The Other Florida
The Other Florida 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,357 ratings
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors 4.06 avg rating — 956 ratings
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A Natural History of Cumberland Island, Georgia
A Natural History of Cumberland Island, Georgia 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It 3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,217 ratings
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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The State Botanical Garden of Georgia
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver 3.99 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Lost Girls Of Camp Forevermore
The Lost Girls Of Camp Forevermore
by: Kim Fu
3.21 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
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Voices of Cherokee Women
Voices of Cherokee Women 3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
by: Kim Cross
4.25 avg rating — 2,316 ratings
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The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream 3.51 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Clay
Clay 3.80 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 4.34 avg rating — 67 ratings
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A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning 3.96 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Islands, the Universe, Home
Islands, the Universe, Home 3.93 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World
The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Writing the Sacred into the Real
Writing the Sacred into the Real 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South 3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say 4.13 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Stairway to Heaven: Poems
Stairway to Heaven: Poems 3.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Peacock on the Lawn
A Peacock on the Lawn 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Yosemite: Valley of Thunder
Yosemite: Valley of Thunder 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays
Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront 4.44 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Nearsighted Naturalist
The Nearsighted Naturalist 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Talking Story: One Woman's Quest to Preserve Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions
Talking Story: One Woman's Quest to Preserve Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds
Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds 4.40 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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Hungry Ocean
Hungry Ocean 3.85 avg rating — 5,813 ratings
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Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind 4.15 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal 3.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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