Biographies of Place

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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 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 — 436,115 ratings
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Walden, or, Life in the Woods
Walden, or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,845 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 — 35,158 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,850 ratings
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Istanbul: Memories and the City 3.82 avg rating — 21,661 ratings
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The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn 4.23 avg rating — 16,861 ratings
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot 4.13 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,109 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,045 ratings
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Coming Into the Country
Coming Into the Country 4.21 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,493 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,209 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature 4.24 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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In Siberia
In Siberia 3.97 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild 4.15 avg rating — 718 ratings
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky 4.02 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Hav
Hav 3.90 avg rating — 688 ratings
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 9,322 ratings
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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) 4.20 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
The City of Falling Angels 3.55 avg rating — 17,134 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam 3.99 avg rating — 6,620 ratings
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In Patagonia
In Patagonia 3.65 avg rating — 18,538 ratings
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My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra
by: John Muir
4.06 avg rating — 7,229 ratings
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The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain 4.28 avg rating — 8,428 ratings
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Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind 4.15 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,142 ratings
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
The Secret Knowledge of Water 4.29 avg rating — 2,773 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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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating — 4,538 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere
Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World 3.93 avg rating — 17,084 ratings
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Hearing Birds Fly
Hearing Birds Fly 3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 3.97 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La 3.92 avg rating — 1,226 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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Down the River
Down the River 4.18 avg rating — 2,476 ratings
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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain 3.87 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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Venice
Venice 4.03 avg rating — 1,838 ratings
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Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2)
Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 3,593 ratings
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Findings
Findings 4.17 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast 4.02 avg rating — 14,409 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
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One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West 4.17 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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The Faraway Nearby
The Faraway Nearby 4.21 avg rating — 7,556 ratings
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Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon 4.03 avg rating — 3,475 ratings
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs 4.10 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos 4.26 avg rating — 1,696 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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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Sightlines
Sightlines 4.26 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland 3.94 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Of Dikes and Windmills
Of Dikes and Windmills 4.05 avg rating — 19 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 — 1,185 ratings
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The Mountains of California
The Mountains of California
by: John Muir
4.11 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Great Plains
Great Plains 3.95 avg rating — 3,476 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World 4.36 avg rating — 4,299 ratings
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi 3.97 avg rating — 808 ratings
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An African in Greenland
An African in Greenland 4.10 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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The Book Of Yaak
The Book Of Yaak
by: Rick Bass
3.96 avg rating — 602 ratings
64.
Claiming Ground
Claiming Ground 3.94 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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PrairyErth
PrairyErth 4.04 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
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Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (Stones of Aran #1)
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (Stones of Aran #1) 4.16 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem 4.25 avg rating — 339 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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The Lost Heart of Asia
The Lost Heart of Asia 3.88 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
70.
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco 3.99 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West 3.94 avg rating — 971 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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The Discovery of India
The Discovery of India 4.09 avg rating — 8,511 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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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,045 ratings
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 4.22 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
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Cripple Creek Days
Cripple Creek Days 3.88 avg rating — 134 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
78.
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe 4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Iberia
Iberia 3.71 avg rating — 3,298 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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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America 4.07 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Moody Forest
Moody Forest 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
83.
Listening Point
Listening Point 4.41 avg rating — 479 ratings
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England's green and pleasant land
England's green and pleasant land 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert
The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert 4.08 avg rating — 97 ratings
86.
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland 3.82 avg rating — 10,929 ratings
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 4.35 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
86.
I Married the Klondike
I Married the Klondike 4.04 avg rating — 446 ratings
86.
The Desert Year
The Desert Year 4.05 avg rating — 154 ratings
91.
The Height of Nonsense
The Height of Nonsense 3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
by: Joe Cook
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
91.
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan 3.98 avg rating — 6,048 ratings
94.
Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (Volume 8) (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)
Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (Volume 8) (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
94.
New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak
New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany
Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany 3.74 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Foods and Festivals of the Danube Lands: Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia
Foods and Festivals of the Danube Lands: Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia
by: Lila Perl
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
94.
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration 4.07 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Tibetan Foothold
Tibetan Foothold 4.05 avg rating — 217 ratings
99.
A Writer's House in Wales
A Writer's House in Wales 3.80 avg rating — 335 ratings
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