Nature Magic Podcast Book List to August 2021

Nature Magic Book List

At last I have compiled a list of recommended books from our fabulous podcast guests πŸ™‚

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 1975Β Β Β  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

 

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