Books like Underland by Robert Macfarlane

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

A powerful and terrifying warning about the dire consequences of global warming, from the acclaimed author of The Seven Obstacles to Climate Change.

Bill Bryson retraces a journey across Britain, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, uncovering the country’s quirks, charms and changes with humor and keen observation.

Terry Tempest Williams celebrates America’s national parks in a lyrical blend of memoir, natural history, and social critique, showcasing twelve iconic landscapes and the profound connection between wild lands and the American soul.

A journey through ancient paths, filled with natural history, literature, and the stories of those who walked them.

Alan Weisman’s Countdown asks how many humans Earth can sustain, blending field research with ecological science to chart a path toward a balanced, prosperous future for people and nature.

A young boy discovers long-hidden truths about his society, leading him to challenge its teachings.

When his archaeologist father disappears, fourteen‑year‑old Will Burrows discovers a tunnel that leads to a subterranean city called the Colony, revealing hidden family ties and a world of underground adventure.

A sequel to The Descent finds humanity once again searching a subterranean world inhabited by a savage hominid race for its demonic leader, who has orchestrated a series of terrorist attacks that have resulted in an all-out clash of civilizations. 75,000 first printing.

Preserving the environment, saving the rain forests, and preventing the extinction of species may seem like fairly recent concerns, but in Man and the Natural World, Sir Keith Thomas explores how these ideas took root long ago. In this entertaining and illuminating history, Thomas aims not just to explain present interest in preserving the environment and protecting the rights of animals, but to reconstruct an earlier mental world as well. Throughout the ages humankind has attempted to rationalize its place in nature. At no time was the idea of exploiting the earth for our own advantage so sharply challenged as in England between the sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. For it was during these years that there occurred a whole cluster of changes in the way in which men and women, at all social levels, perceived the natural world around them. Thomas seeks to expose the assumptions which underlay the views and feelings of the inhabitants of early modern England toward the animals, birds, vegetation, and physical landscape among which they spent their lives. The issues raised here are even more alive today than they were just ten years ago. This fascinating work deftly shows that it is impossible to disentangle what the people of the past thought about plants and animals from what they thought about themselves.