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NATURAL HISTORY

The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires ...

Sophie Pinkham

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When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World ...

Suzanne Simard

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Forty Ways to Know a Tree

Joan Maloof

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By pegging her narrative to White's diary entries of 1781, when White was 60 and still seven years short of publishing The Natural History of Selborne, the miraculously sensitive Uglow rele... read more

A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer ...

Jenny Uglow

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A far-ranging meditation on snow, touching on physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. By a distinguished Swedish academic.

Snö: A History

Sverker Sörlin

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The relationship between landscape and land use explored with subtlety and enthusiasm by the late architectural historian, Cannon by name and also Canon Historian for Bristol Cathedral. A wi... read more

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through Its Geology ...

Jon Cannon

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A study of the life and work of the C17th Dutch pioneer of microscopy and microbiology, whose inventiveness and curiosity are still admired, even if some of his theories were hamstrung by pr... read more

Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni van Leeuwenhoe ...

Geertje Dekkers

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An eclectic conference of birds, gathered from contemporary photography across diverse fields. The result is ravishing.

Aviary: The Bird in Contemporary Photography

William A. Ewing

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How could we not? By a long-time member of the British Antarctic Survey. Some illustrations.

The Penguin Book of Penguins: An Expert’s Guide to the WorldR ...

Peter Fretwell

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On the rewards of paying attention, the fruits of observation in nature. By the amiable author of How to Read Water and others.

The Hidden Seasons

Tristan Gooley

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A Carrollian pursuit of all eighteen species - this is a rumbunctious, funny and energetic memoir of Lafferty's many quests.

An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic voyages in pursuit of the worldR ...

Jamie Lafferty

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Another book of magnificent, hand-tinted photographs from Ms. Moon: ancient oaks of Britain and Europe, the evergreen oaks of the southern United States and acorns. Breathtaking work.

Oak: From Seed to Ancient Tree

Beth Moon

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How we came to live with them - and they with us, their slaves - from prehistory to the present. (We can't help noting that Professor Moore is called 'Jerry' and suppose that this may be a s... read more

Cat Tales: A History

Jerry Moore

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Before the publisher released the sub-title, we believed that finally, after several years hanging out with different birds in various damp and uncomfortable places, this well-loved nature-w... read more

Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark ...

John Lewis-Stempel

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An exploration of darkness through literature, in which memory, history and myth are deployed as instruments of illumination.

Night Vision: In Search of the True Dark

Jean Sprackland

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The vicissitudes of the Amur tiger and the successes of the bilateral conservation efforts, by the expert on endangered species in northern Asia and author of Owls of the Eastern Ice.

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Ex ...

Jonathan C. Slaght

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Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.

The Social Lives of Birds

Joan E. Strassmann

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A social and cultural history of forests.

Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation ...

Charles Watkins

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Delightful and funny introduction to birds, beaks, bones, eggs and the shaking of tail feathers. For ages 4-8.

Omnibird: An Avian Investigator’s Handbook

Giselle Clarkson

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Catalogue of an exhibition on the Wunderkammer at the Palazzo Grimani, Venice, which focusses particularly on the George Loudon Collection.

A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature ...

Thierry Morel

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From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.

Teasels

Sam Francis

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The author retired from teaching in Yorkshire to devote himself to looking after badgers... and then foxes and deer...

Interrupted Journeys: Badgers and Other Roadside Distractions ...

Adrian Potter

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Besides being an expert in landmine clearance, the author is prodigiously well informed about tees and their habitats. Here, she gives a remarkable exposition of trees as agents in their own... read more

The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the Wo ...

Harriet Rix

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Remarkable Birds

Mark Avery

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Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination

Robert Macfarlane

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'Mountains of the Mind' (pbk, ?8.99), about the cultural history of mountains, was very highly regarded. His new book is about the remaining wild places in Britain

The Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane

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A beautiful little hardback from Little Toller. On the animals - real and imagined - of the city of floating dreams.

A Venetian Bestiary

Jan Morris

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Greed, exploitation and imperialism - the havoc wrought by a single orchid root that arrived in Britain from Brazil - by mistake - in 1818.

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession ...

Sarah Bilston

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The wonders of the deep, by a national treasure and his long-term collaborator. Illustrated.

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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Prof. Farrier is consolingly positive about our relationship with our world.

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet ...

David Farrier

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Peat bogs in all their complex, seeping glory.

Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water

Alys Fowler

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Macfarlane's powerful new book is a beautiful torrent of vivid language and research - and also his most political work so far. As we'd expect from this remarkable writer, he ranges from the... read more

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

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A history of our wooded past - the 'wildwood' of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors, the neolithic agricultural clearances and the many centuries since of timber consumption.

Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodland ...

Jonathan Mullard

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Hermit-like, Nicholson built himself a shed in a scruffy field from which to observe and listen to the birds thriving in that patch of wilderness.

Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood

Adam Nicolson

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ...

Rebecca Solnit

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A global approach that also considers traditional and modern forest stewardship in the face of environmental degradation.

The Great Tree Story: How Forests Have Shaped Our World ...

Levison Wood

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