I recently read All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry in which the narrator makes repeated mention of his love for “river books.”
I was curious if anyone has any recs, especially non-fiction, that will quench my currently unaddressable thirst for nature? Whether it’s geography/oceanography/regional history/whatever else.
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Peter Wohlleben: The Hidden Life of Trees
Braiding Sweetgrass
Entangled Life
It’s fiction, but *The Easy Life in Kamusari* by Shion Miura was so evocative and enjoyable. It’s set in the remote forests of Japan and takes place over a year.
I love that book OP. One of my very favorites.
The Overstory. After I read it I wanted so badly to be in deep nature.
Walking in the Woods by Yoshifumi Miyazaki is about the concept of forest-bathing. It made me want to be outside so much that I read big chunks of the book in a forest.
My favourite nature nonfiction is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer though. Brilliant book that looks at nature through a lense of Indigenous wisdom as well as western science.