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What to read after Walden by Henry David Thoreau: 24 titles sharing themes of Environmentalists & Naturalists, Ecology, Nature, and Biography & Autobiography, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Chasing Shadows Unraveling the Mysteries of the Great White Shark

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

New Life Stories — David Attenborough

New Life Stories

David Attenborough

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Salleyland Wildlife Adventures in Swamps, Sandhills, and Forests — Whit Gibbons

Salleyland Wildlife Adventures in Swamps, Sandhills, and Forests

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Last Stand George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West — Michael Punke

Last Stand George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Wildlife Wars The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden — Terry Grosz

Wildlife Wars The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood — Janisse Ray

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Elephants Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants — Hannah Mumby

Elephants Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

A Bigger Picture My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis — Vanessa Nakate

A Bigger Picture My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Travels in Alaska — John Muir

Travels in Alaska

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

The Pride of a Lion What One Pride Can Teach Us about Survival, Fear and Family — Ron Magill

The Pride of a Lion What One Pride Can Teach Us about Survival, Fear and Family

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

The Book of Hope A Survival Guide for Trying Times — Jane Goodall

The Book of Hope A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Untamed The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island — Will Harlan

Untamed The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference — Greta Thunberg

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Alexander Von Humboldt How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature — Maren Meinhardt

Alexander Von Humboldt How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature

Maren Meinhardt

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Nature

Enchanted by Daphne The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist — Peter R. Grant

Enchanted by Daphne The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Biography & Autobiography

The Hidden World of the Fox

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Ecology • Biography & Autobiography

The Illustrated Walden Thoreau Bicentennial Edition — Henry David Thoreau

The Illustrated Walden Thoreau Bicentennial Edition

Henry David Thoreau

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

The Naturalist in Britain A Social History — David Elliston Allen

The Naturalist in Britain A Social History

David Elliston Allen

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

The Pig in Thin Air An Identification — Alex Lockwood

The Pig in Thin Air An Identification

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

Diary of a Young Naturalist — Dara McAnulty

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

Desert Solitaire — Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

Life’s Journey Volume 1 — Jon F. Gleman

Life’s Journey Volume 1

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

How to Love a Forest The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World — Ethan Tapper

How to Love a Forest The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

Soundings Journeying North in the Company of Whales – the Award-Winning Memoir — Doreen Cunningham

Soundings Journeying North in the Company of Whales – the Award-Winning Memoir

Doreen Cunningham

Themes: Environmentalists & Naturalists • Nature • Biography & Autobiography

If Walden by Henry David Thoreau is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Environmentalists & Naturalists, Ecology, Nature and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Greg Skomal, David Attenborough, Whit Gibbons, Michael Punke, and others.

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