Recommended Reading & Viewing

Looking for your next great read about nature, science, the environment, or the great outdoors? Discover the fascinating natural world around us with nature books selected and reviewed by the editors of Nature Conservancy magazine.

Recently Reviewed Nature Books:

• Spring 2009
  The Great Warming
  Brian Fagan (Bloomsbury // $29.95)
• Nature's Beloved Son
  Bonnie J. Gisel (Heyday Books // $45.00)
• Wildlands Philanthropy
  Tom Butler (Earth Aware Editions // $65.00)
   

Previously Reviewed Nature Books:

• Winter 2008
  Wildness Within, Wildness Without
  
  Nature’s New Deal
  
  Revolution on the Range 
    
• Autumn 2008
  Earth: The Sequel
  
  Where the Wild Things Were
  
  National Park Service Podcasts
   
• Summer 2008
  Masters of the Artic Ice
  

  A Natural History of Quiet Waters
  

  The Unnatural History of the Sea

• Spring 2008
  African Odyssey: 365 Days
   
  Earth Under Fire: How Global  Warming Is Changing the World
   
  The World Without Us
    
• Winter 2007
  Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon
   
  Galapagos: The Islands That Changed The World
   
  Planet Ocean
   
• Autumn 2007
  Deep Economy:
  The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
  
  The Sespe Wild
  
  Soaring with Fidel
   
• Summer 2007
  A Road Runs Through It: Reviving Wild Places
  
  Sippewissett: or, Life on a Salt Marsh 
  
  Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century 
   
• Spring 2007
  Chasing Spring
   
  Home Ground
   
  Letters from Eden
   
• Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise
  by Gaylord Nelson 
• Birds and Light
  by Lars Jonsson
• The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
  by Peter Matthiessen. Illustrated by Robert Bateman
• The Birdwatcher’s Companion to North American Birdlife
  by Christopher W. Leahy
• Chasing Lava: A Geologist’s Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
  by Wendell A. Duffield
• Colorado Wild: Preserving the Spirit and Beauty of Our Land
  by Judith Sellers. Photography by Willard Clay
• Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac: Celebrating Nature and Her Rhythms in the City
  by Eric Utne
• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
  by Edward O. Wilson
• Crown of the Continent: The Last Great Wilderness of the
  Rocky Mountains
  by Ralph Waldt
• Darlington’s Fall
  by Brad Leithauser. Illustrations by Mark Leithauser
• Earth From Above
  Photography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Introduction by Lester Brown
• Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky
  by Art Wolfe
• The Empty Ocean
  by Richard Ellis
• Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark
  by Barbara Hurd
• Farming With the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches
  by Daniel Imhoff, photographs by Roberto Carra
• The 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States
  by The American Bird Conservancy
• Flush
  by Carl Hiaasen
• The Future of Life
  by Edward O. Wilson
• A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
  by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
• The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
  by Scott Weidensaul
• The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
  by Tim Gallagher
• Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage
  by Deborah Cramer
• The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
  by Lisa Couturier
• How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature
  by H.H. Shugart
• How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
  by Simon Barnes
• In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places
• Investing in Nature: Land Conservation in Collaboration
  with Business
  by William J. Ginn
• Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance From a Hidden World
  by Erich Hoyt and Ted Schultz
• The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands
  by Neil Rolde
• The Last Great Bay: Images of Apalachicola
  Photography by Richard Bickel. Forward by Bob Bendick
• Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
  by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Living Great Lakes: Exploring North America’s Inland Seas
  by Jerry Dennis
• The Mammals of North America
  by Roland W. Kays and Don E. Wilson
• Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth
  by Daniel Glick
• Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
  by David Quammen
• National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World
  Illustrations by Pieter Folkens
• Natural Suspect
  by William Bernhardt, et al.
• Nature's Keepers
  by Bill Birchard
• The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
  by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison
• The North American Prairie
  by Stephen Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman
• North Woods Wildflowers and Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers
  by Doug Ladd
• An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a
  Singular Insect
  by Sharman Apt Russell
• The Octopus and the Orangutan: More True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
  by Eugene Linden
• Old Man on His Back: Portrait of a Prairie Landscape
  by Sharon Butala. Photography by Courtney Milne
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma
  by Michael Pollan
• One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish: The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook
  by Carole Baldwin and Julie Mounts
• Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark
  by Daniel Botkin
• Prairie: A North American Guide
  by Suzanne Winckler
• The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
  by Phillip Hoose
• Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology and Economics
  Edited by Richard L. Knight, Wendell C. Gilgert and Ed Marston
• Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
  by James Gustave Speth
• Reefs and Rain Forests: The Natural Heritage of Malaysian Borneo
  by Murray S. Kaufman
• Return To Wild America: A Yearlong Search For The Continent’s Natural Soul
  by Scott Weidensaul
• Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, The Last Great Salmon Fishery
  by Bruce Hampton. Photography by Robert Glenn Ketchum
• The Saltwater Wilderness
  by Glenn Vanstrum
• Saving Maine
  by Bill Silliker Jr.
• Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design in the American West
  by Anthony Anella and John B. Wright
• Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expedition Along Baja’s Desert Coast
  by Andromeda Romano-Lax
• Sibley's Birding Basics
  by David Allen Sibley
• The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
  by David Allen Sibley
• The Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges
  by Eric Jay Dolin
• Smokechasing
  by Stephen J. Pyne
• Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds
  by Lynn Lozier
• State of the World 2002
  Published by the Worldwatch Institute
• Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year
  by David M. Carroll
• Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
  by Eric Dinerstein
• To Save a River
  by Scott Dickerson and Dennis C. Shultz
• Two Hearted-Oak: The Photography of Roman Loranc
  by Roman Loranc
• Unexpected Indiana: A Portfolio of Natural Landscapes
  Photography by Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan
• Water Follies
  by Robert Glennon
• The Weather Makers
  by Tim Flannery
• What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life
  by Gilbert Waldbauer
• Why I Wake Early
  by Mary Oliver
• Wild Moments: Reveling in Nature's Signs, Songs, Cycles, and Curious Creatures
  by Ted Williams
• Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
  by Bernd Heinrich
• Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
  by Susan Brind Murrow
• Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range
  by Nathan Sayre
• World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth’s Living Resources in the 21st Century
  by Brian Groombridge and Martin D. Jenkins
• World Atlas of Coral Reefs
  by Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious and Edmund P. Green

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