Nature Books

A Traveller in Little Things

W. H. Hudson

A Traveller in Little Things is a collection of English essays written by William Henry Hudson,who was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Some of essays are:How I found my title  ..

Darwinism (1889)

Alfred Russel Wallace

Darwinism (1889) is an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications written by  Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, ..

Freckles

Gene Stratton-Porter

Freckles is a fiction story of an orphan with disability written by Gene Stratton-Porter, who was  born Geneva Grace Stratton, was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained Ameri..

Birds and Poets - with Other Papers

John Burroughs

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights m..

The Mountains of California

John Muir

The Mountains of California is an ecology work written by John Muir, an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the prese..

Evolution

James A. S. Watson

The idea of Evolution is an old one. It is older than the Darwinian hypothesis; it is older than Lamarck, who published his particular theory in 1809, the year that Darwin was born; it is older than B..

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chro..

The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior

Robert Mearns Yerkes

This book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work— the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harva..