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 2008
African Odyssey: 365 Days
Anup and Manoj Shah (Harry N. Abrams // $29.95)
Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World
Gary Braasch (University of California // $34.95)
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne Books // $24.95)
Previously Reviewed Nature Books:
- 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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