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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How to Be a Good Creature
Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson
The Big Burn
Timothy Egan
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition
Roger Tory Peterson
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
Sam Kean, Tim Folger
Winterdance
Gary Paulsen
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition
Steven Foster, James A. Duke
A Peterson Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Lee Allen Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
Kenn Kaufman, Patricia Manzano Fischer, Hector Gomez De Silva
Animals in Translation
Catherine Johnson, Temple Grandin
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A Season on the Wind
Kenn Kaufman
Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America
Nathan Pieplow
Down from the Mountain
Bryce Andrews
The Farmer's Son
John Connell
Saving Jemima
Julie Zickefoose
The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
Boyd Varty
White Feathers
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 Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson
Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Owens, Delia Owens
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