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16-12-2010, 02:12 PM
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| | | Nature Book Reader
Have just been looking at the excellent Caught By The River website and was flicking through their Nature Book Reader: A Nature Book Reader - Caught by the River
What three books on nature would WAB members name as their top 3?
Mine would be:
The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
The Unofficial Countryside by Richard Mabey |
16-12-2010, 04:26 PM
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| | | Re: Nature Book Reader
Anything by Henri Fabre.
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16-12-2010, 06:22 PM
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| | | Re: Nature Book Reader
Thanks Jim - Not come across him before. Any book by him you would recommend to a newcomer? |
16-12-2010, 09:14 PM
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| | | Re: Nature Book Reader
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life and, something a bit lighter, the original "Last Chance To See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Of course picking those three means leaving out everything by Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough, Gerald Durrel, Colin Tudge, Simon Barnes and a host of others...
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16-12-2010, 10:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burntfacedjake  Thanks Jim - Not come across him before. Any book by him you would recommend to a newcomer? | "Fabre's Book of Insects", for a start (you won't be able to put it down!).
As his writings are long out of copyright, you can download some of them for free from 'Project Gutenberg': Browse By Author: F - Project Gutenberg
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17-12-2010, 05:17 PM
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| | | Re: Nature Book Reader
The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Wildwood by Roger Deakin
And an honourable mention for Colin Tudge for both "Consider the Birds" and "The Secret Life of Trees". |
17-12-2010, 06:54 PM
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| | | Re: Nature Book Reader
Anything by Mike Tomkies and I recently read the Collins New Naturalist book on Galloway and the Borders, by Derek Ratcliffe and thought it absolutely superb (D. Ratcliffe struck me quite simply as a brilliant man). By far the best one of the New Naturalists that I have read.
It's interesting that folk have put Wild Places at the top. It came highly recommended by more than one person to me, yet I'm afraid I didn't enjoy it at all (sorry!). However, I did like the telly programme of it!
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