British and Irish Nature Writing

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H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,917 ratings
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Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain 4.27 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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The Wild Places
The Wild Places 4.25 avg rating — 5,424 ratings
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot 4.13 avg rating — 11,033 ratings
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Findings
Findings 4.17 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees 4.09 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field 4.18 avg rating — 2,263 ratings
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Sightlines
Sightlines 4.26 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 3,382 ratings
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Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm 4.30 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain 4.28 avg rating — 8,428 ratings
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Landmarks
Landmarks 4.23 avg rating — 4,288 ratings
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The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District 4.14 avg rating — 15,148 ratings
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Crow Country
Crow Country 3.89 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Peregrine
The Peregrine 4.15 avg rating — 5,597 ratings
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady 4.32 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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Wilding
Wilding 4.45 avg rating — 9,004 ratings
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Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination 4.09 avg rating — 5,246 ratings
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The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England
The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England 3.80 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Natural History of Selborne
The Natural History of Selborne 3.97 avg rating — 557 ratings
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At the Loch of the Green Corrie
At the Loch of the Green Corrie 4.36 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills 3.96 avg rating — 804 ratings
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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees 4.29 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness
Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness 3.89 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland 4.21 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Connemara: Listening to the Wind
Connemara: Listening to the Wind 4.13 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Nature Cure
Nature Cure 3.80 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Corvus: A Life with Birds
Corvus: A Life with Birds 4.05 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Tarka the Otter
Tarka the Otter 3.75 avg rating — 2,296 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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Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees
Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees 3.93 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Dart
Dart 3.95 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
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Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature
Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature 4.31 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature 3.83 avg rating — 950 ratings
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The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals 4.21 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal
Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal 3.94 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Holloway
Holloway 4.01 avg rating — 1,119 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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The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood
The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood 3.87 avg rating — 403 ratings
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The Goshawk
The Goshawk 3.82 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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The Listeners
The Listeners 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Seal Morning
Seal Morning 3.91 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Common Ground
Common Ground
by: Rob Cowen
4.17 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Granta 102: The New Nature Writing
Granta 102: The New Nature Writing 3.80 avg rating — 107 ratings
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A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm 4.24 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London 4.04 avg rating — 5,894 ratings
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The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood 4.06 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey 4.42 avg rating — 7,455 ratings
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Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides 3.87 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village 4.14 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Shining Levels: The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature
Shining Levels: The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature 4.48 avg rating — 124 ratings
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On wing and wild water
On wing and wild water 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Weeds and Wild Flowers
Weeds and Wild Flowers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Through the Woods
Through the Woods 3.99 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter 3.63 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature
The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature 3.59 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place 4.07 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery
Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery 3.81 avg rating — 920 ratings
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The Long, Long Life of Trees
The Long, Long Life of Trees 3.90 avg rating — 338 ratings
61.
The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year 4.19 avg rating — 395 ratings
61.
21st-Century Yokel
21st-Century Yokel
by: Tom Cox
4.26 avg rating — 935 ratings
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A Croft in the Hills
A Croft in the Hills 4.11 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Life of a Chalkstream
Life of a Chalkstream 4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy 4.02 avg rating — 813 ratings
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The River: A Love Story, a New Life in the Country, and One Idyllic Year Filming Otters
The River: A Love Story, a New Life in the Country, and One Idyllic Year Filming Otters 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
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How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher 3.98 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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A Shepherd's Watch: Through the Seasons with One Man and His Dogs
A Shepherd's Watch: Through the Seasons with One Man and His Dogs 4.15 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings 3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter 3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds 4.57 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
by: Tim Dee
3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey 3.88 avg rating — 588 ratings
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The Salt Path
The Salt Path really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 93,833 ratings
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The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator 3.78 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet 4.40 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness
Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness 4.35 avg rating — 85 ratings
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At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn
At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn 3.83 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden 4.38 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees 4.19 avg rating — 18,614 ratings
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Few and Far Between: On The Trail of Britain's Rarest Animals
Few and Far Between: On The Trail of Britain's Rarest Animals 4.22 avg rating — 77 ratings
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A Natural History of the Hedgerow
A Natural History of the Hedgerow 3.90 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 499,149 ratings
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Otters Tale
Otters Tale 4.08 avg rating — 408 ratings
84.
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 4.50 avg rating — 33,099 ratings
84.
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons 4.24 avg rating — 192 ratings
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A Wilder Vein
A Wilder Vein really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wild Life
Wild Life 4.21 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible 3.91 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life 4.19 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Wood in Winter
The Wood in Winter 4.13 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells 4.47 avg rating — 5,285 ratings
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The Unofficial Countryside
The Unofficial Countryside 4.12 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water
Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water 3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
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While Flocks Last
While Flocks Last 4.09 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Woods etc.
Woods etc. 4.02 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Britain's Rare Flowers (A Volume in the Poyser Natural History Series)
Britain's Rare Flowers (A Volume in the Poyser Natural History Series) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland
The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland 4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Military Orchid (The Orchid Trilogy, #1)
The Military Orchid (The Orchid Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface 3.77 avg rating — 2,585 ratings
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