Best Essays about Plants, Animals and Nature

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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating โ€” 53,322 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating โ€” 33,673 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating โ€” 436,150 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 โ€” 850,558 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves 4.21 avg rating โ€” 25,555 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating โ€” 35,162 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating โ€” 200,859 ratings
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Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures
Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures
by: J.Z. Hunt
4.03 avg rating โ€” 35 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals 4.17 avg rating โ€” 61,501 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating โ€” 120,197 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating โ€” 20,380 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist 4.15 avg rating โ€” 21,058 ratings
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The Rhino Crash
The Rhino Crash 4.19 avg rating โ€” 153 ratings
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The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture 3.79 avg rating โ€” 1,020 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating โ€” 1,785 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl 4.10 avg rating โ€” 12,466 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating โ€” 445,080 ratings
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder 4.29 avg rating โ€” 2,624 ratings
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail 4.10 avg rating โ€” 29,343 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass 4.52 avg rating โ€” 158,523 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating โ€” 6,842 ratings
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One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives 3.88 avg rating โ€” 1,129 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World 3.93 avg rating โ€” 618 ratings
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ุฃูƒูˆุงู† ุงู„ุญูŠูˆุงู†: ู†ุธุฑุงุช ููŠ ุฃู…ู… ุงู„ุญูŠูˆุงู†ุงุช
ุฃูƒูˆุงู† ุงู„ุญูŠูˆุงู†: ู†ุธุฑุงุช ููŠ ุฃู…ู… ุงู„ุญูŠูˆุงู†ุงุช 4.67 avg rating โ€” 30 ratings
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Walden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: And The Thoreau Essay, Walking
Walden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: And The Thoreau Essay, Walking 3.89 avg rating โ€” 136 ratings
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards 4.19 avg rating โ€” 444 ratings
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Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned American Original
Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned American Original 4.27 avg rating โ€” 113 ratings
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds 4.41 avg rating โ€” 577 ratings
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The Everglades: River of Grass
The Everglades: River of Grass 4.15 avg rating โ€” 936 ratings
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Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.32 avg rating โ€” 69 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating โ€” 13,007 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast 4.25 avg rating โ€” 92 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating โ€” 115,988 ratings
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals 4.02 avg rating โ€” 4,947 ratings
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An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect 3.94 avg rating โ€” 252 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating โ€” 194,444 ratings
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins 4.04 avg rating โ€” 3,303 ratings
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick 3.56 avg rating โ€” 602,846 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating โ€” 114,644 ratings
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In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians
In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians 4.64 avg rating โ€” 125 ratings
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
by: Jon Young
4.11 avg rating โ€” 1,624 ratings
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds 4.22 avg rating โ€” 448 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating โ€” 3,014 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating โ€” 58,655 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating โ€” 8,859 ratings
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa 4.17 avg rating โ€” 3,657 ratings
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape 3.82 avg rating โ€” 302 ratings
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Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery 4.15 avg rating โ€” 53 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 โ€” 101 ratings
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Clear Creek
Clear Creek 4.50 avg rating โ€” 2 ratings
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Birds Build Nests
Birds Build Nests 4.03 avg rating โ€” 33 ratings
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love 3.75 avg rating โ€” 755 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 โ€” 2,264 ratings
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TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country 4.33 avg rating โ€” 15 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
Mind of the Raven 4.01 avg rating โ€” 4,112 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 โ€” 19 ratings
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The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter 4.05 avg rating โ€” 1,849 ratings
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Deep Past
Deep Past 3.83 avg rating โ€” 411 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life 4.09 avg rating โ€” 46 ratings
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Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time 3.51 avg rating โ€” 827 ratings
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The Goshawk
The Goshawk 3.82 avg rating โ€” 1,756 ratings
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Just Like Us: A Veterinarianโ€™s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives
Just Like Us: A Veterinarianโ€™s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives 4.63 avg rating โ€” 27 ratings
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Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth 4.40 avg rating โ€” 218 ratings
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Wings Over Water: The Vital Magic of North Americaโ€™s Prairie Wetlands
Wings Over Water: The Vital Magic of North Americaโ€™s Prairie Wetlands 3.84 avg rating โ€” 25 ratings
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Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World 3.98 avg rating โ€” 202 ratings
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Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell
Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell 4.29 avg rating โ€” 65 ratings
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Indian Country
Indian Country 4.10 avg rating โ€” 171 ratings
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Call of the Kokako
Call of the Kokako 4.60 avg rating โ€” 10 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 โ€” 38 ratings
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Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author
Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author 4.15 avg rating โ€” 13 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating โ€” 4,359 ratings
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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship 4.03 avg rating โ€” 894 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya 4.21 avg rating โ€” 1,036 ratings
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Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness 3.92 avg rating โ€” 272 ratings
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The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World 3.72 avg rating โ€” 183 ratings
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ุงู„ุญูˆุช: ุงู„ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ ุงู„ุทุจูŠุนูŠ ูˆุงู„ุซู‚ุงููŠ
ุงู„ุญูˆุช: ุงู„ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ ุงู„ุทุจูŠุนูŠ ูˆุงู„ุซู‚ุงููŠ
by: Joe Roman
3.92 avg rating โ€” 85 ratings
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Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves
Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves 4.32 avg rating โ€” 725 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating โ€” 73,876 ratings
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo 4.01 avg rating โ€” 2,027 ratings
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Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth 4.44 avg rating โ€” 404 ratings
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 4.36 avg rating โ€” 3,102 ratings
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Pets on the Couch: Neurotic Dogs, Compulsive Cats, Anxious Birds, and the New Science of Animal Psychiatry
Pets on the Couch: Neurotic Dogs, Compulsive Cats, Anxious Birds, and the New Science of Animal Psychiatry 3.85 avg rating โ€” 580 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai 4.23 avg rating โ€” 789 ratings
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Wild Animals I Have Known
Wild Animals I Have Known 4.13 avg rating โ€” 1,452 ratings
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance 4.02 avg rating โ€” 530 ratings
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Kabloona
Kabloona 4.18 avg rating โ€” 841 ratings
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Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature 4.29 avg rating โ€” 220 ratings
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating โ€” 10,619 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 โ€” 198 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World 4.30 avg rating โ€” 730 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal 4.15 avg rating โ€” 20 ratings
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Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans and Animals Can Change the Way we Live
Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans and Animals Can Change the Way we Live 4.12 avg rating โ€” 192 ratings
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Paradise Saved
Paradise Saved 4.25 avg rating โ€” 4 ratings
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Tears of Mermaids
Tears of Mermaids 3.50 avg rating โ€” 107 ratings
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Travels and Other Writings
Travels and Other Writings 3.99 avg rating โ€” 96 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa 4.33 avg rating โ€” 1,315 ratings
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Here If You Need Me
Here If You Need Me 4.01 avg rating โ€” 7,230 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa 4.39 avg rating โ€” 8,662 ratings
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War 3.91 avg rating โ€” 223 ratings
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees 4.27 avg rating โ€” 700 ratings
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