Best of Outdoor Literature

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Cherry Ingram
Cherry Ingram
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
102.
Wilderness and the American Mind
Wilderness and the American Mind 4.12 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
102.
In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbats Mazeno Ridge
In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbats Mazeno Ridge 4.26 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World 3.76 avg rating — 9,511 ratings
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Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds 4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Darkness Beckons
The Darkness Beckons 4.43 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites
Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites 3.80 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 3.82 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things 4.05 avg rating — 6,882 ratings
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Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart 3.89 avg rating — 537 ratings
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unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast
unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World 3.59 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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Ravens in Winter
Ravens in Winter 4.17 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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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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The Snow Geese
The Snow Geese 3.56 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Writing About Nature: A Creative Guide
Writing About Nature: A Creative Guide 3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari 3.65 avg rating — 201 ratings
120.
Birders: Tales of a Tribe
Birders: Tales of a Tribe 3.67 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature 4.17 avg rating — 813 ratings
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The Goshawk
The Goshawk 3.82 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature
Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 260 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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Crow Country
Crow Country 3.89 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017 3.89 avg rating — 391 ratings
128.
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: the Complete Works of J. A. Baker
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: the Complete Works of J. A. Baker 4.21 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature
Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature 4.22 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
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A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh
A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. 2: The Invisible Pyramid / The Night Country / Essays from The Star Thrower
Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. 2: The Invisible Pyramid / The Night Country / Essays from The Star Thrower 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Silence is my homeland: Life on Teal River
Silence is my homeland: Life on Teal River 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors 4.06 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk
A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
by: Mark Hume
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Sound Like Water Dripping: In Search of the Boreal Owl
A Sound Like Water Dripping: In Search of the Boreal Owl 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields
Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 70 ratings
142.
Hoagland on Nature: Essays
Hoagland on Nature: Essays 4.28 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems 3.48 avg rating — 46 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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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra 3.77 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Of Wolves and Men
Of Wolves and Men 4.20 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
by: John Muir
4.29 avg rating — 950 ratings
149.
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons 4.12 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Hal Borland's Twelve Moons of the Year
Hal Borland's Twelve Moons of the Year 4.35 avg rating — 68 ratings
151.
Winter Count
Winter Count 4.07 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide
Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
153.
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory 4.16 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren 4.05 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
157.
Bringing the Mountain Home
Bringing the Mountain Home 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
157.
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
159.
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water 4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings
159.
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine 4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings
161.
Mind of the Raven
Mind of the Raven 4.01 avg rating — 4,112 ratings
161.
William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
163.
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle 4.12 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
163.
The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
by: C.G. Jung
4.33 avg rating — 541 ratings
165.
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
At the Loch of the Green Corrie 4.36 avg rating — 477 ratings
165.
Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
167.
Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
by: Ron Lizzi
4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings
168.
Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon 3.90 avg rating — 73 ratings
168.
Norton Book of Nature Writing
Norton Book of Nature Writing 4.03 avg rating — 194 ratings
170.
Holloway
Holloway 4.01 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
170.
Speaking for Nature: The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of the American Environmental Movement (Dover Books on Plants and Animals)
Speaking for Nature: The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of the American Environmental Movement (Dover Books on Plants and Animals) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Caleb's List: Climbing the Scottish Mountains Visible from Arthur's Seat
Caleb's List: Climbing the Scottish Mountains Visible from Arthur's Seat 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
by: John Lane
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
174.
Out of the wild
Out of the wild 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature 4.11 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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A World of my Own
A World of my Own 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests
Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests 3.97 avg rating — 351 ratings
178.
The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit and Politics
The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit and Politics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Last Wolf
The Last Wolf 3.87 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature 4.01 avg rating — 51,514 ratings
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Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild
Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild 4.24 avg rating — 72 ratings
182.
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader 4.10 avg rating — 325 ratings
182.
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature 4.10 avg rating — 336 ratings
184.
Hayduke Lives! (Monkey Wrench Gang, #2)
Hayduke Lives! (Monkey Wrench Gang, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge 4.05 avg rating — 376 ratings
186.
The Great Outdoors: A Nature Bucket List Journal
The Great Outdoors: A Nature Bucket List Journal 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
187.
Brother Nature
Brother Nature 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Clyde Butcher: Nature's Places of Spiritual Sanctuary Photographs from 1961 to 1999
Clyde Butcher: Nature's Places of Spiritual Sanctuary Photographs from 1961 to 1999 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
189.
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods 3.71 avg rating — 912 ratings
189.
A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature 3.86 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution 4.01 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees
Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees 3.93 avg rating — 113 ratings
192.
An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels
An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
194.
This Happened to Me!: A Graphic Collection of True Adventure Tales
This Happened to Me!: A Graphic Collection of True Adventure Tales 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table
Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table 4.25 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales
Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Peregrine
The Peregrine 4.15 avg rating — 5,598 ratings
197.
Travels and Other Writings
Travels and Other Writings 3.99 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels
The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels 4.40 avg rating — 5 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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