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
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
Sam Kean, Tim Folger
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward Wilson
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition
Roger Peterson
The Big Burn
Timothy Egan
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition
Steven Foster, James Duke
A Peterson Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Lee Peterson, Roger Peterson
Winterdance
Gary Paulsen
Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition
Robert Powell, Roger Conant, Joseph Collins
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
Kenn Kaufman, Patricia Fischer, Hector De Silva
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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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