Books that delve deeper into interesting species, ecosystems and above all food.
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last updated August, 2026
Cinnamon: a history of taste and empire
Nira Wickramasinghe
Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 81)
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Steve Brusatte
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
Danna Staaf
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
Consider The Eel: A Natural And Gastronomic History
Richard Schweid
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
Patrik Svensson
Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum: Eine Zeitreise durch die Meere
Frank SchÀtzing
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Yossi Yovel
Slither: How Natureâs Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
Stephen S. Hall
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Waterâs Edge
Susan Hand Shetterly
Sno: A beautiful natural history of snow and the effects of climate change from the award-winning environmentalist
Sverker Sörlin
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History In The Old South
Michael W. Twitty
Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibia's Beer
Tycho van der Hoog
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
Cuneiform
Irving Finkel
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
Trevor Corson
Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels
Ellen Ruppel Shell
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing
Tim Brookes
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing Tsu
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Jeremy Desilva
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Virginia Postrel
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
Salt: A World History
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica B. Harris
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