Nature Book Summaries

Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2002 336 pages
4.51
986 ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
A Garden of Marvels Summary
A Garden of Marvels
How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
by Ruth Kassinger 2014 416 pages
3.84
456 ratings
Science
Nature
Gardening
Green Philosophy Summary
Green Philosophy
How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton 2011 464 pages
3.89
428 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
Grass, Soil, Hope Summary
Grass, Soil, Hope
A Journey through Carbon Country
by Courtney White 2014 244 pages
4.04
166 ratings
Food
Environment
Science
Megafire Summary
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas 2017 384 pages
4.01
247 ratings
Science
Nature
Climate Change
Tough Broad Summary
Tough Broad
From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
by Caroline Paul 2024 288 pages
4.17
408 ratings
Health
Memoir
Nature
Healing Mushrooms Summary
Healing Mushrooms
A Practical and Culinary Guide to Using Mushrooms for Whole Body Health
by Tero Isokauppila 2017 224 pages
4.19
534 ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Rewilding the Sea Summary
Rewilding the Sea
by Charles Clover 2022 261 pages
4.21
400 ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
A Brief History of Earth Summary
A Brief History of Earth
Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by Andrew H. Knoll 2021 272 pages
3.94
4.1K ratings
Science
History
Geology
A Beautiful Question Summary
A Beautiful Question
Finding Nature's Deep Design
by Frank Wilczek 2015 448 pages
3.87
1.5K ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.01
815 ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
Damnation Spring Summary
Damnation Spring
by Ash Davidson 2021 464 pages
3.90
13.3K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
On Animals Summary
On Animals
by Susan Orlean 2021 256 pages
3.83
5.7K ratings
Animals
Essays
Nature
Net Zero Summary
Net Zero
How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm 2020 329 pages
3.85
250 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Science
Eating to Extinction Summary
Eating to Extinction
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
by Dan Saladino 2022 464 pages
4.30
2.4K ratings
Food
Science
History
The Self-Sufficiency Garden Summary
The Self-Sufficiency Garden
Feed Your Family and Save Money
by Huw Richards 2024 224 pages
4.32
217 ratings
Gardening
Food
Cookbooks
Learning From the Octopus Summary
Learning From the Octopus
How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
by Rafe Sagarin 2012 320 pages
3.76
223 ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Gardening for a Lifetime Summary
Gardening for a Lifetime
How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
by Sydney Eddison 2010 208 pages
3.74
267 ratings
Gardening
Nature
Self Help
The Machinery of Life Summary
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell 1992 179 pages
4.42
705 ratings
Science
Biology
Art
The Earth Prescription Summary
The Earth Prescription
Discover the Healing Power of Nature with Grounding Practices for Every Season
by Laura Koniver 2020 232 pages
3.85
147 ratings
Health
Nature
Spirituality
Soil and Sacrament Summary
Soil and Sacrament
A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
by Fred Bahnson 2013 288 pages
4.12
258 ratings
Memoir
Nature
Theology
The Secret Knowledge of Water Summary
The Secret Knowledge of Water
by Craig Childs 2000 304 pages
4.29
2.7K ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Buddhist Biology Summary
Buddhist Biology
Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science
by David Philip Barash 2013 216 pages
3.79
107 ratings
Science
Buddhism
Philosophy
How To Catch A Mole Summary
How To Catch A Mole
by Marc Hamer 2019 256 pages
4.16
1.8K ratings
Nature
Memoir
Animals
Taking on the Plastics Crisis Summary
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
by Hannah Testa 2020 64 pages
3.88
601 ratings
Science
Social Justice
Activism
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012 208 pages
4.34
709 ratings
Agriculture
Gardening
Food
The Backyard Parables Summary
The Backyard Parables
Lessons on Gardening, and Life
by Margaret Roach 2013 288 pages
3.65
429 ratings
Gardening
Memoir
Nature
This Land Is Our Land Summary
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
by Ken Ilgunas 2018 288 pages
4.00
315 ratings
Travel
Nature
History
Last Breath Summary
Last Breath
Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance
by Peter Stark 2001 320 pages
4.02
704 ratings
Science
Adventure
Survival
What an Owl Knows Summary
What an Owl Knows
The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman 2023 333 pages
4.15
5.9K ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
The Lies of the Land Summary
The Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
by Steven Conn 2023 320 pages
4.01
125 ratings
History
Urbanism
Politics
Black Hole Survival Guide Summary
Black Hole Survival Guide
by Janna Levin 2020 160 pages
4.00
1.8K ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
The Enchanted Life Summary
The Enchanted Life
Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday
by Sharon Blackie 2018 356 pages
4.04
1.5K ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Nature
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry 1977 246 pages
4.34
6.4K ratings
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Birds Art Life Summary
Birds Art Life
A Year of Observation
by Kyo Maclear 2017 240 pages
4.00
3.4K ratings
Memoir
Nature
Birds
Getting to Green Summary
Getting to Green
Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
by Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 pages
4.00
103 ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
Moby-Duck Summary
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn 2011 416 pages
3.31
3.2K ratings
Science
Travel
Environment
The Lion in the Living Room Summary
The Lion in the Living Room
How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
by Abigail Tucker 2016 243 pages
3.62
3.8K ratings
Animals
Science
Cats
Wildhood Summary
Wildhood
The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2019 368 pages
4.12
495 ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
What the Dog Knows Summary
What the Dog Knows
The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
by Cat Warren 2013 352 pages
3.98
1.8K ratings
Dogs
Animals
Science
Mind and Nature Summary
Mind and Nature
A Necessary Unity
by Gregory Bateson 2002 220 pages
4.27
794 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by Ken Ilgunas 2016 288 pages
3.81
2.2K ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Landfill Summary
Landfill
by Tim Dee 2018 239 pages
3.71
138 ratings
Nature
Birds
Environment
Behind the Mirror Summary
Behind the Mirror
A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge
by Konrad Lorenz 1973 261 pages
4.02
157 ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Life Everlasting Summary
Life Everlasting
The Animal Way of Death
by Bernd Heinrich 2012 256 pages
3.97
1.2K ratings
Nature
Science
Animals
Your Brain On Nature Summary
Your Brain On Nature
The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality
by Eva M. Selhub 2012 256 pages
3.96
421 ratings
Nature
Psychology
Science
Now or Never Summary
Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
by Tim Flannery 2008 176 pages
3.48
189 ratings
Science
Environment
Politics
Coming Into the Country Summary
Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee 1977 438 pages
4.22
7.4K ratings
Travel
Nature
History
Supernature Summary
Supernature
by Lyall Watson 1973
4.09
698 ratings
Science
Paranormal
Popular Science
Beyond Words Summary
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
by Carl Safina 2015 461 pages
4.41
4.5K ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
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