18 books like The sylvan year

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The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies · 1884 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: *Time*, *Longman's* *Magazine*, *The* *Graphic*, *The* *Standard*, *The* *Magazine* *of* *Art*, *The* *Gentleman's* *Magazine*, *The* *St.* *James's* *Gazette*, *The* *National* *Review*, *The* *Manchester* *Guardian*, and *The* *Pall* *Mall* *Gazette*. Shares Outdoor books, Natural history, Nature

My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 · ★ 4.1 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author Shares Natural history, Nature, Biography & Memoir

The Open Air Richard Jefferies · 1885 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thames.--The single-barrel gun.--The haunt of the hare.--The bathing season.--Under the acorns.--Downs.--Forest.--Beauty in the country.--Out of doors in February.--Haunts of the lapwing.--Outside… Shares Outdoor books, Natural history

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native… Shares Natural history, Nature, Social life and customs

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir

The story of my heart Richard Jefferies · 1883 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before, were… Shares Natural history, Nature, Biography & Memoir

The life and letters of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin · 1887 · 575p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Natural history, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The picturesque

The picturesque Christopher Hussey · 1927 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Nature with this book.

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1828 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Published anonymously at his own expense in 1828, Hawthorne's first novel is an engrossing apprentice work. Shares Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

Walden Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. Walden details… Shares Natural history, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

The Child's Book of Nature: for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and .. Worthington Hooker · 1857 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Natural history, Nature with this book.

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