My bookshelf·Index Published

2020

25 books

No. 0110 fable · forest

The Bear

Andrew Krivak

Off in the future, society has collapsed, leaving behind only a girl and her father as the last people on the planet. They live in an idyllic setting, the stuff of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dreams: a mountainside cabin near a…

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The Bear
No. 0103 cli-fi · future

The New Wilderness

Diane Cook

Many dream of the camping trip that never ends. Surely our best selves are found in nature, right? In Diane Cook’s novel The New Wilderness, a mother saves her daughter from pollution-induced asthma by moving to the Wilderness State, an…

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The New Wilderness
No. 0102 natural history · polar regions

Antarctica: The Waking Giant

Sebastian Copeland

If anyone can transport us into the soul of the White Continent, it’s photographer Sebastian Copeland. A professional polar explorer, Copeland has made several human-powered expeditions in frozen extremes, including the first transcontinental crossing of Antarctica from east to west…

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Antarctica: The Waking Giant
No. 0077 field guide · sea

The Sea Journal: Seafarers’ Sketchbooks

Huw Lewis-Jones

Facsimile pages from the private logbooks and sketchbooks of people at sea across four centuries. Naval officers, whalers, a ship’s surgeon, naturalists, a young woman on an emigrant voyage, modern sailors and marine biologists. Watercolors of coastlines drawn as navigational…

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The Sea Journal: Seafarers’ Sketchbooks
No. 0009 memoir · Scandinavia

The Book of Eels

Patrik Svensson

Who knew there could be an international bestseller all about eels? Turns out, as Patrik Svensson writes, quite a few knew. Centuries of leading thinkers — Pliny the Elder, Aristotle, Sigmund Freud, Rachel Carson — have been captivated by eels…

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The Book of Eels