Nature Reads To Get Lost In This Summer

June 21, 2021

The Heartbeat of Trees

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, a powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.

“A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science." — The Guardian

Seed to Dust

For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights, a stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, from the critically acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole.

"That rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing.” — Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)

"[With] chapters... [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery ... Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does—with a close eye to what changes, and what does not.”—The Wall Street Journal

Out of the Woods

In this highly original work of nature writing and memoir, a young man explores his shifting sexual identity and troubled family history against the backdrop of a sprawling urban forest in London.

“Out of the Woods is a brave and beautiful book, electrifying on sex and nature, religion and love. No one is writing quite like this.”— Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City

The Blue Wonder

An intimate, deep-sea dive into the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean, from a marine biologist and diver. It's The Hidden Life of Trees—for the ocean!

“If you like your books to be brimming with interesting science, then dive in!” — Trisan Gooley, bestselling author of How to Read Water

In Praise of Paths

An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by foot.

“What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one’s way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.”—The New York Times Book Review

Feasting Wild

In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods.

A New York Times Summer Reading Selection

“An intense and illuminating travelogue... La Cerva combines environmental history with feminist memoir to craft a narrative that's more in tune with recent works by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Rush.” —The Wall Street Journal

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