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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

Principles of Geology — Charles Lyell

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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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Turning to Stone Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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101 Things You Don’t Know about Science and No One Else Does Either

Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Essays

Our Wandering Continents; an Hypothesis of Continental Drifting — Alex L. (Alexander Logie) Du Toit

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Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Literary Collections

Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain With Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers — James David Forbes

Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain With Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers

James David Forbes

Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Literary Collections

Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay — Archibald Geikie

Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Archibald Geikie

Themes: Geology • Earth Sciences • Literary Collections

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation — Hakluyt Richard

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation

Hakluyt Richard

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

The Storm — Daniel Defoe

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

An Atlas of Tolkien DELUXE EDITION An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien’s World — David Day

An Atlas of Tolkien DELUXE EDITION An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien’s World

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

A History of the World in 47 Borders The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps — Jonn Elledge

A History of the World in 47 Borders The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Introductio Ad Veram Physicam Seu Lectiones Physicae (1702) — John Keill

Introductio Ad Veram Physicam Seu Lectiones Physicae (1702)

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Voice of the Fish A Lyric Essay — Lars Horn

Voice of the Fish A Lyric Essay

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 — Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Fire Flood Plague — Sophie Cunningham (ed.)

Fire Flood Plague

Sophie Cunningham (ed.)

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Something in the Woods Loves You — Jarod Anderson

Something in the Woods Loves You

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Maurice and Maralyn A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story — Sophie Elmhirst

Maurice and Maralyn A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

Sophie Elmhirst

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land — N. Scott Momaday

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

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Modern Architecture and Other Essays

Vincent Scully (Jr.)

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

Saqiyuq Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women — Nancy Wachowich

Saqiyuq Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

Nancy Wachowich

Themes: Earth Sciences • Essays • Literary Collections

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with In Suspect Terrain by John McPhee. Connected by Geology, Earth Sciences, Essays. Authors featured include David Remnick, Tim Folger, P. R., Charles Lyell, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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