Nature Magic Book List
At last I have compiled a list of recommended books from our fabulous podcast guests 🙂
Childrens books have an Asterix *
The Garden Awakens- Designs to nurture our land and ourselves
Mary Reynolds
Natures Best- A new approach to conservation that starts in your yard
Doug W Tallamy
Rewilding- Returning nature to our farm
Isabella Tree
Rebirding- Rewilding Britain and its birds
Benedict MacDonald
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Living the good Life- How to Live simply and sanely in a troubled world
Helen and Scott Nearing
The works of:
Paul Theroux
Robert Frost
*The Lorax
Dr Suess
The Peregrine
J.A Baker
Hope in Hell- A decade to confront the climate emergency
Jonathan Porritt
The Song of the Dodo-Island Biogeography in the age of extinctions
David Quammen
Collins Photographic Wildflower Guide
David Streeter
The Unnatural History of the Sea
Callum Roberts
The Sea around us
Rachel Carson
Whittled Away- Irelands vanishing nature
Padraic Fogarty
The One Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka
Nostas
John Moriarty
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Gaia
James Lovelock
Limits to Growth
Donella H Meadows
Richard Dawkins –
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins –
The Blind Watchmaker
Zoe Devlin –
The Wildflowers of Ireland
Steven Falk –
Bees of Britain and Ireland
Bryan Danforth et al –
The Solitary Bees
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson –
Extraordinary Insects
Secret Life of Plants
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
*Be nice to spiders
Margaret Bloy Graham
Fritjof Capra –
The Web of Life
Paddy Woodworth –
Our Once and Future Planet
Aldo Leopold –
A Sand County Almanac
Mary Oliver –
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
A field guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean
Rolf Kuhn, Henrik Pedersen and Phillip Cribb
Collins Wild Flower Guide
Davide Streeter, C. Hart-Davies, A Hardcastle F. Cole and L. Harper
Ireland's Wild Orchids
Brendan Sayers and Susan Sex
Wild Plants of the Burren and the Aran Islands
Charles Nelson
So Shall We Reap
Colin Tudge
Arctic Dreams
The Crow and the Weasel
Barry Lopez
Anam Cara
John O Donohue
The author John Moriarty.
Gordon Darcy –
The Breathing Burren
James Fairley –
An Irish Beast Book 1975Â Â Â Blackstaff Press
Nature Magic- How you can engage everyone with biodiversity
Mary Bermingham
Ethical Business- Fifty ways you can help protect people, the planet and profits
by Sarah Duncan
Any books
By: Richard Louv
Desert Solitaire
By:Edward Abbey
My Heart Soars
By:Chief Dan George
I am a Hare- Hanna and The hop family
Irene Graham
Wild Ireland
Eamonn de Buitlear
The Great British Year
Stephen Moss
Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fossey
Our Wild Calling
By Richard Louv
Braiding Sweetgrass
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Looking at Nature
By: Elsie Proctor
Wildflowers of Offaly
John Feehan
Gardeners World
Geoff Hamilton
Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv
How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention
John Muir Laws.
Poems
Wordsworth
The Soul of an Octopus- a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness
Sy Montgomery
The elephant whisperer
Lawrence Anthony
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
Keepers of the Earth
Dr Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac's newest book:
A Peacemaker for Warring Nations:The Founding of the Iroquois League
With illustrations by Daniel Kanietakeron Fadden
Our Inner Ape
Dr Frans De Wall
Fabres book of Insects
Jean Henri Fabre
Autumn Across America
Edwin Way Teale
A People's Ecology
Gregory Cajete
Recommended author: Roger Tory Peterson
Life in Ireland- A short history of a long time.
Conor W O Brien
My Garden World
By: Monty Don
Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery
Our Inner Ape: The best and worst of human nature
Frans de Waal
The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
How did we get into this mess?
George Monbiot
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Remarkable creatures - a short guide to Irish disappearing animals
Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals
Aga Grandowizc
*Bonkers about Beetles
*Fantastic about Frogs
*Obsessive about Octopuses
*Smart about Sharks
*Curious about Crocodiles
*Mad about Monkeys
*Crazy about Cats
All by: Owen Davey
Flying Eye Press
30 Second Zoology
Mark Fellowes
A walk in the woods
Bill Byron and William Roberts