 | The Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.99 A pioneering example of 'eco poetics'.
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 | Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Buy new: £7.33 / Used from: £2.11 Not great literature but prophetic and challenging.
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 | The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen C. Daily
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £9.64 How the economy must wake up to nature's services.
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 | Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rachel Carson
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.24 Carson's famous alarm call. And it made all the difference.
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 | Song of the Rolling Earth: A Highland Odyssey by John Lister-Kaye
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £0.01 Enjoyable, thought-provoking celebration of the Aigas Field Centre.
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 | Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees by Richard Mabey
Buy new: £24.36 / Used from: £19.99 Richard Mabey's popular book about our relationships, natural and cultural, with Britain's trees and flowers.
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 | The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen
Buy used from: £0.73 One of America's greatest living writers.
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 | Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by Bill McKibben
Buy used from: £0.50 Bill McKibben embodies Gramsci's formulation: 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'.
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 | The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
Buy new: £9.81 / Used from: £4.83 Rackham's book is unsurpassed: a masterpiece of research and passion.
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 | Eden by Tim Smit
Buy new: £6.40 / Used from: £0.01 Hooray for Tim Smit! The story of the Eden Project - and what can be achieved when we set our minds to it.
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 | Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie by Richard Manning
Buy used from: £8.97 On the tragedy of America's Great Plains - and how they can be brought back to life, to the benefit of humans and wildlife.
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 | The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science) by Edward O Wilson
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.00 A great scientist and sage.
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 | The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Buy new: £7.54 / Used from: £4.59 Why travel around the world when your local parish can intrigue you for a lifetime? A masterpiece of natural curiosity.
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 | Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank by A Beattie
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £4.15 How nature has the answers, and why we should be paying attention.
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 | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Buy new: £15.47 / Used from: £5.77 If you can't afford this wonderful book, visit the fine website of the same name.
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 | I Count: Together We Can Stop Climate Chaos : Your Step-by-step Guide to Climate Bliss by Climate
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £0.01 Buy it for your friends, for your family! Chuck it at Jeremy Clarkson's head!
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 | Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Buy new: £4.38 / Used from: £0.83 A fine poet celebrates what we're fighting for. Because this list needs uplift, too.
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 | Capitalism as If the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt
Buy new: £25.45 / Used from: £9.72 Jonathan Porritt throws down the gauntlet to capitalists AND environmentalists. For all its ills, democratic capitalism may be the only system capable of saving itself, and us.
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 | Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £4.87 The late and much lamented Roger Deakin's now classic account of getting cold and wet around the British Isles.
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 | How to be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Just for a (wise) laugh.
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