Life on Earth by David Attenbourough
This is a beautifully written and photographed book about the fascinating world of plants and animals all over the globe. This is nature writing at its best.
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The book is dated in that the central ideas have woven themselves into our collective cultural knowledge. It is still a good book because it was revolutionary in its day and reading it is a little bit like traveling to the headwaters of a great river.
Kon-Tiki and Fatu-Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl
Among infinite other talents, Thor Heyerdahl is a wonderful storyteller. These two books are the ones we've read, but he has a few others as well. Fatu-Hiva has been published more recently under the title: How Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
These are just two of her books; she has written several. Her work is not easily categorized, but she makes a great many observations about the natural world and her writing has a unique quality that merits more publicity than she gets. She is a favorite of scholars, writers, and philosophers and is quoted frequently.
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