Natural History

Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

New Releases Tagged "Natural History"

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Traversal
Raising Hare: A Memoir
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Is a River Alive?
Beasts of the Sea
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Origin of Species
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
H is for Hawk
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane AckermanA Natural History of Dragons by Marie BrennanRain by Cynthia BarnettThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanA Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of...
107 books — 9 voters
Salt by Mark KurlanskyCod by Mark KurlanskyThe Botany of Desire by Michael PollanAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom StandageFour Fish by Paul   Greenberg
Food & Drink Histories (nonfiction)
195 books — 43 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverTithing and Giving by J.A.    Cox
Memoirs of Experiments
240 books — 109 voters
Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Histories of the Everyday
375 books — 402 voters

Hunter's Moon by Garry KilworthFantastic Mr. Fox by Roald DahlThe Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. MannixLady into Fox by David GarnettThe Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter
Books about Foxes
133 books — 45 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,090 books — 1,239 voters


John Muir
John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] ...more
John Muir

Edward O. Wilson
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
E. O. Wilson

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The Lost Words Nature/Naturalist/Environmentalist literature - aiming for diversity of writer/writing. Reading…more
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Mountain & Prairie Book Club Book club for the Mountain & Prairie community. A wide range of titles that explore the complex…more
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Great Plains Nature Center Walking Book Club This book club provides a relaxed environment for learning something new and getting outdoors wi…more
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Natural History & Biology This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of…more
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