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The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceAndrea Wulf201536 pts3 wins6 listsKnopfBiographyNatural History & Animals+3
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeBarry Lopez198620 pts2 wins2 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailW. Jeffrey Bolster201218 pts3 wins3 listsHarvard University PressNature & EnvironmentArt, Music & Performance+3
Border: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka Kassabova201718 pts1 wins3 listsGraywolf PressTravel & PlaceNatural History & Animals+2
Fathoms: The World in the WhaleRebecca Giggs202118 pts1 wins4 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil WarMelvin Ely200416 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild CoastMarjoleine Kars202114 pts2 wins2 listsThe New PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake BayWilliam W. Warner197614 pts2 wins2 listsLittle, BrownNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Sea Around UsRachel Carson195014 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ExtinctionsDavid Quammen199612 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban TragedyAnna Clark201812 pts2 wins4 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and AmericaJames Tejani202510 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand CanyonKevin Fedarko202510 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy ChaptersHenry Gee202110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American CoastAndrew Lipman201610 pts1 wins2 listsYale University PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918Alexander Watson201410 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneWar & MilitaryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical WorldCyprian Broodbank201310 pts1 wins1 listsThames & HudsonHistoryReconstruction+3
The Wavewatcher's CompanionGavin Pretor-Pinney201010 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of CanadaAllan Casey200910 pts1 wins1 listsGreystone BooksTravel & PlaceScience & Discovery+3
A Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM. G. Vassanji200810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadKarolyn Smardz Frost200710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryScience & Discovery+3
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the SouthJack Temple Kirby200610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940Julian Jackson200310 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and its Peoples 8000BC-AD1500Barry Cunliffe200110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American IdentityJill Lepore199810 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab WorldKanan Makiya199310 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapePolitics & GovernmentTravel, Exploration & Place+3
China: Alive in the Bitter SeaFox Butterfield198210 pts1 wins1 listsBantam BooksHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The European Discovery of America: The Northern VoyagesSamuel Eliot Morison197110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
How to Survive a Bear AttackClaire Cameron202510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentScience & Discovery+3
Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the MiramichiDavid Adams Richards199810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographySports & Athletes+2
Mapping the DeepRobert Kunzig200110 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We AreRebecca Boyle202410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceNatural History & Animals+3
To the River: Losing My BrotherDon Gillmor201910 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
WaterMarq de Villiers199910 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam Dalrymple20248 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High PlainsLucas Bessire20218 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas Brinkley20068 pts1 wins2 listsWilliam MorrowHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The WildEllen Meloy20058 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla Power20158 pts0 wins2 listsHenry HoltReligionOceans, Rivers & Water+2
African Calliope: A Journey to the SudanEdward Hoagland19798 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever ChemicalsMariah Blake20258 pts0 wins3 listsCrownMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering StraitBathsheba Demuth20196 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a PresidentCandice Millard20126 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Baltimore's Mansion: A MemoirWayne Johnston19996 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+3
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckSophie Elmhirst20256 pts0 wins2 listsRiverhead BooksMemoir & AutobiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on EarthZoë Schlanger20246 pts0 wins2 listsHarperCollinsScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creatures in the Natural WorldPatrik Svensson20206 pts0 wins2 listsEccoScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the SeaCallum Roberts20126 pts0 wins2 listsVikingScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate CrisisAnnie Proulx20225 pts0 wins2 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentClimate, Weather & Disaster+2
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on EarthKaren G. Lloyd20254 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+1
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's MessiahCharles King20244 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern FranceCatherine Tatiana Dunlop20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman EmpireDavid J. Mattingly20234 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Michigan PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our WorldHelen Czerski20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing CoastlineRosanna Xia20234 pts1 wins1 listsHeydayNature & EnvironmentEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil RightsSamuel G. Freedman20234 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of SolidarityRory Finnin20224 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeOceans, Rivers & Water+3
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our FeetJo Handelsman20214 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest OwlJonathan Slaght20214 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to BeMartin Williams20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
River Networks as Ecological Corridors: Species, Populations, PathogensAndrea Rinaldo, Marino Gatto,, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe20204 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceIndigenous History+3
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another WorldSarah Stewart Johnson20204 pts1 wins1 listsCrownScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They MatterBen Goldfarb20184 pts1 wins1 listsChelsea Green PublishingNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s VineyardDavid R. Foster20174 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressNature & EnvironmentIndigenous History+3
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical WorldCorey Ross20174 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central AppalachiaShannon Elizabeth Bell20164 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressNature & EnvironmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128Ling Zhang20164 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentEmpire & Colonialism+3
Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean CrustJeffrey A. Karson, Deborah S. Kelley, Daniel J. Fornari, Michael R. Perfit, Timothy M. Shank20154 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+1
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic JourneyDeborah Cramer20154 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressNature & EnvironmentDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland IslandWill Harlan20154 pts1 wins1 listsGrove PressBiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New YorkTed Steinberg20144 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
War of the Whales: A True StoryJoshua Horwitz20144 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the EnvironmentPavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose,, Michio Aoyama20134 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierScienceCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard OfLisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan20124 pts1 wins1 listsInsideClimate NewsNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through EnglandHugh Thomson20124 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseTravel & PlaceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern CityDaniel Savoy20124 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressArts & CriticismEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species ActJoe Roman20114 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward ThomasMatthew Hollis20114 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of ProhibitionDaniel Okrent20104 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerHistoryIndigenous History+3
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and IslamEliza Griswold20104 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanReligionOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and CivilizationSteven Solomon20104 pts1 wins1 listsHarperHistoryConstitutional History+2
Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent DroughtJames G. Workman20094 pts1 wins1 listsWalker & CompanyNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a ContinentAndrew Nikiforuk20094 pts1 wins1 listsGreystone BooksNature & EnvironmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after SlaveryRebecca J. Scott20084 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American DiasporaStephanie E. Smallwood20084 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish SuccessionCarla Rahn Phillips20074 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Unnatural History of the SeaCallum Roberts20074 pts1 wins1 listsIsland PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern GermanyDavid Blackbourn20064 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Charles Darwin, GeologistSandra Herbert20054 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Rivers of North AmericaArthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing20054 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierNature & EnvironmentEducation & Universities+3
Nature: An Economic HistoryGeerat J. Vermeij20044 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Handbook of Weather, Climate, and WaterThomas D. Potter, Bradley R. Colman20034 pts1 wins1 listsWileyScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the TroubadoursFredric L. Cheyette20014 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressBiographyGender & Feminism+3
Terence RattiganGeoffrey Wansell19954 pts1 wins1 listsPalgrave MacmillanBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Ogallala: Water for a Dry LandJohn Opie19934 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Alabi’s WorldRichard Price19904 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial AfricaRobert Harms19874 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical AgeHugh D. Crone19864 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Bitter LemonsLawrence Durrell19574 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTravel & PlaceEducation & Universities+3
Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of PlaceKelby Ouchley20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
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All awards · Topic: Oceans, Rivers & Water · Sorted by score · 230 books · filtered