Armchair travel with a difference : Finding refuge in Nature
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A list curated for our #LighthouseLifeRaft newsletter, featuring a reading by author Peter Wohlleben & special recommendations by Anita the Lighthouse Beagle!
Our top picks for books that blend genres to inspire wonder and make us look at the world differently. They include David Gange, who has us look at British history from the sea (or more specifically, from the vantage of his wee kayak), Lucy Jones unpicking the ways wilderness feeds our minds; Jessica Lee extracts memories from mountains and Dan Richards takes us with him, to those remotest places humans keep seeking out.
These are ideal books for getting unstuck - armchair travel with a difference.
But first, a little reading for littler ones from Peter:
Linked Books
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- Losing Eden : Why Our Minds Need the Wild
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- Jones, Lucy
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- Can You Hear the Trees Talking? : Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest
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- Wohlleben, Peter
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- Outpost : A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
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- Richards, Dan
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- On the Red Hill : Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
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- Parker, Mike
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- The Frayed Atlantic Edge : A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel
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- Gange, David
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- Two Trees Make a Forest : On Memory, Migration and Taiwan
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- Lee, Jessica J.
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- The Stopping Places : A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
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- Bas, Damian Le
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- Diary of a Young Naturalist
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- McAnulty, Dara
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- Irreplaceable : The fight to save our wild places
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- Hoffman, Julian
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- Eye of the Shoal : A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
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- Scales, Helen
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- A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
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- Jukes, Helen
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- The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate
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- Wohlleben, Peter
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- Seed to Dust : A Gardener's Story
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- Hamer, Marc, Ashworth, Jonathan
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- Back to Nature : How to Love Life - and Save It
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- Packham, Chris, McCubbin, Megan