Biography & Memoir

This embellished graphic novel, based on Audubon’s own retellings, not only captures the spirit of early America’s unexplored wilderness but also the rise of this exceptional artist to become one of the greatest natural historians ever. By Fabien Grolleau Read more

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, this personal memoir is about what it is to have a home. Written by and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are. Read more

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The paperback edition of Christin Cooper's NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller Better Living Through Birding.
Non-members will get 15% off the regular price and BCS members will get 25% off. Read more

In this uplifting memoir, Trish O'Kane, a professor and activist, shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Read more

At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. By Dorian Anderson. Read more

Birding with Yeats is a delicate, sensitive, and gentle reflection on the unique bond between a mother and son, and the magic that is the natural world. By Lynn Thomson. Read more

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam recounts the adventures of Britain’s favorite maverick rewilder, Derek Gow, and his single-minded mission to save our rarest wildlife—one species at a time. Read more

From Kerri ní Dochartaigh, the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year and finding home. Lyrical, fragmentary in subject and form, Cacophony of Bone is an ode to a year, a place, and a love that transformed a life. Read more

Hardcover edition by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch. The subject of the award-winning documentary The Eagle Huntress tells the true story of how she became the first girl to compete in—and win—one of Mongolia's most prestigious competitions. Read more

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. .. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils emerges this unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Read more

Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally. Read more

An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the world compiled by Sonja Eismann. Read more

Pack Light follows Shilletha Curtis's journey changing the narrative of Hiking While Black—because the Great Outdoors belongs to everyone. Read more

Tim Birkhead celebrates how Francis Willughby set a standard for the way birds and natural history should be studied. It t is a fascinating insight into a thrilling period of scientific history and a lively biography of a man who lived at its heart. Read more

Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, this book by Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a braid of “two strands, one wondrous..., the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose”. Read more

At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, Walking the Ojibwe Path is an unforgettable journey. By Richard Wagamese. Read more