Nurture a love of nature and science with these books that inspire and inform.
Best-selling author Sam Kean selects the year’s top science and nature writing, looking for writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward Wilson
The Big Burn
Timothy Egan
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition
Roger Peterson
A Peterson Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Lee Peterson, Roger Peterson
A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Trees
Roger Peterson, Janet Wehr, George Petrides
Animals in Translation
Catherine Johnson, Temple Grandin
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition
Steven Foster, James Duke
Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition
Robert Powell, Roger Conant, Joseph Collins
Winterdance
Gary Paulsen
A Naturalist at Large
Bernd Heinrich
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Fast into the Night
Debbie Clarke Moderow
The Bluebird Effect
Julie Zickefoose
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir, Scot Miller
A Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Roger Peterson, Virginia Peterson
Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Owens, Delia Owens
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