Nature Books

Time and Life - Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species"

Thomas Henry Huxley

EVERYONE knows that that superficial film of the earth’s substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the co..

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

John Burroughs

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers is children book written by John Burroughs with chapters like Bird enemies, The Tragedies of the Nests, Bees, An Idyl of the Honey-Bee, The Pasto..

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson

Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories qui..

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced..

The History of Sumatra

William Marsden

The island of Sumatra, which, in point of situation and extent, holds a conspicuous rank on the terraqueous globe, and is surpassed by few in the bountiful indulgences of nature, has in all ages been ..

Conservation Reader

Harold W. Fairbanks

The wave of enthusiasm for the conservation of our national resources must reach the children or it will expend much of its force uselessly. It is from the education of the children in right ways of l..

The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One

Prince Sarath Ghosh

One of the great thinkers of the world has said that all the sciences are embodied in natural history. Hence natural history should be taught to a child from an early age. Perhaps the best method of t..

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott...