Recommendations from our site
“In quiet moments I go back to it and read ten pages or so, following Bates on his long journey downriver. He describes a place of great beauty and splendour, a place to escape to.” Read more...
Our most recommended books
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard -
The Song of the Dodo
by David Quammen -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne -
Natural History
by Pliny the Elder