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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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Sea Room
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On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
The Song of the Dodo
by David Quammen -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne