NATURAL HISTORY & ENVIRONMENTALISM
Take a wander through a hand-picked selection from our Natural History section.
Budding naturalists will likely find inspiration in the writings of Robert Macfarlane and Kathleen Jamie. Those looking to expand their understanding of the climate crisis may be interested in the writing of Greta Thunberg and Rachel Carson. Whereas those keen to engage with other lifeforms will be drawn towards the radical worlds of Timothy Morton and Merlin Sheldrake.
Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
When the Forest Breathes
Suzanne Simard
How to Kill a Language
Sophia Smith Galer
Borrowed Land
Kapka Kassabova
The Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ocean
David Attenborough and Colin Butfield
Grasslands
John Wright
Symphonic
Jim Crumley
Of Thorn & Briar
Paul Lamb
Finding Albion
Zakia Sewell
Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
Nick Thorpe
Tree
Aya Koda
A Year with Gilbert White
Jenny Uglow
A Year in Nature
Lia Leendertz
Birds, Sex and Beauty
Matt Ridley
Get Growing
Joe Clark
Frostlines
Neil Shea
The Shetland Way
Marianne Brown
Spring is the Only Season
Simon Barnes
Earthworks
Karen Lloyd
Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It
Arthur Snell
Renaturing
James Canton
Uncommon Ground
Patrick Galbraith
The North Pole
Erling Kagge
Our Oaken Bones
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
The Genius of Trees
Harriet Rix
One Garden Against the World
Kate Bradbury
A Barrister for the Earth
Monica Feria-Tinta
Dark Laboratory
Tao Leigh Goffe
The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
How to Save the Amazon
Dom Phillips
Icarus Economics
John Rapley
In Praise of Floods
James C. Scott
The Surge
Jeevan Vasagar
The Waterlands
Stephen Rutt
Ends of the Earth
Neil Shubin
Just Earth
Tony Juniper
Nature Needs You
Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Sister Nature
Jess de Boer
Think Like a Forest
Ben Rawlence
The Age Code
David Cox
Despite It All
Fred Pearce
The Edges of the World
Charles Foster
Hotwired
Bill Gifford
Intertidal
Yuvan Aves
Marine Crustaceans of Britain and Ireland
Lin Baldock, Charlotte Bolton and Iain M. T. Dixon
Plastic Inc
Beth Gardiner
The Revolution Will Be Internalised
Anouchka Grose
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean
Dagomar Degroot
The Shark Watcher's Manual
Austin Gallagher
Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Kate Brown
The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History
Thomas W. Laqueur
What do dogs do in art? A dazzlingly original cultural history from the Cundill Prize-winning historian.
Long before the phrase ‘man’s best friend’ became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dog’s Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites us to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories.
Tree
Aya Koda
‘Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them…’
Ezo spruce, hinoki, cherry blossoms. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan cast a spell on those who visit its landscape. But as a child, writer Aya Koda realized they were more than objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she learned that we depend on trees as much as they do on us – and spent a lifetime trying to understand them.
When the Forest Breathes
Suzanne Simard
When the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive.
The world-renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has transformed our understanding of the profound intelligence and interconnectedness of trees. In When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers how the deep-rooted cycles of renewal that sustain the forest can also help us to protect our entire global ecosystem.
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
Arboretum
Wildwood
Roger Deakin
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Sitopia
Carolyn Steel
Secrets of a Devon Wood
Jo Brown
Field Work
Bella Bathurst
The Cabaret of Plants
Richard Mabey
Why Women Grow
Alice Vincent
Wild
Noel Kingsbury and Claire Takacs
Planting the Natural Garden
Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf
