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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

David Attenborough

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction memoir nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species by Sang-Hee Lee

Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species

Sang-Hee Lee

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich

Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Winter and Summer Worlds #1

Bernd Heinrich

368 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction nature science adventurous informative slow-paced
Legion by Dan Abnett

Legion

The Horus Heresy #7

Dan Abnett

412 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Richard Miles

521 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction history adventurous challenging slow-paced
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

Peter Heather

734 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking by Rachel Love Nuwer

Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

Rachel Love Nuwer

384 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction science informative slow-paced
Lion El'jonson: Lord of the First by David Guymer

Lion El'jonson: Lord of the First

The Horus Heresy: Primarchs #13

David Guymer

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
fiction science fiction dark fast-paced
Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'punic Wars' Against Rome by Dexter Hoyos

Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'punic Wars' Against Rome

Dexter Hoyos

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0triumphal_reads's review
nonfiction nature science challenging informative medium-paced