The Man Who Quit Money
Mark Sundeen
Published 2012
272 pages
The most popular nature writing books
Nature writing is personal, reflective writing about the natural world. A walk, a season, a stretch of coast or a single bird becomes a way to think about place, loss and belonging. These are slow, beautiful books, best read when you want to be outside and cannot be.
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Mind of the Raven
Bernd Heinrich
1999 · 2016 edition
434 pages
Rising
Elizabeth Rush
Published 2018
299 pages
A Wolf Called Romeo
Nick Jans
Published 2014
288 pages
That Quail, Robert
Margaret Stanger
Published 1992
128 pages
The Man Who Walked Through Time The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Colin Fletcher
1989 · 2014 edition
256 pages
The Flamingo's Smile Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
Published 1985
476 pages
Buzz The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Published 2018
304 pages
The Home Place Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Joseph Drew Lanham
Published 2016
216 pages
A Country Year
Verrill Darhansoff, Sue Hubbell
1986 · 1996 edition
221 pages
Trout Bum
John Gierach
1986 · 2006 edition
205 pages
Next of Kin
Stephen Mills, Roger Fouts
1997 · 1998 edition
432 pages
House of Rain Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
Craig Childs
2007 · 2008 edition
512 pages
The Flight of the Iguana
David Quammen
Published 1988
302 pages
To the River A Journey Beneath the Surface
Olivia Laing
Published 2011
283 pages
A Year In The Maine Woods
Bernd Heinrich
Published 1994
258 pages
Menagerie Manor
Gerald Malcolm Durrell
2003 · 2016 edition
160 pages
Abbey's Road
Edward Abbey
Published 1979
198 pages
Becoming Animal An Earthly Cosmology
David Abram
2010 · 2011 edition
336 pages
Seeds of hope
Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson, Michael Pollan
Published 2013
370 pages
The Overloaded Ark
Gerald Malcolm Durrell
1987 · 2001 edition
222 pages
The Wild Remedy How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
Emma Mitchell
2018 · 2021 edition
192 pages
Soulcraft Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Bill Plotkin, Thomas Mary Berry
Published 2003
369 pages
The Moon by Whale Light
Diane Ackerman
Published 1991
249 pages