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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOne-Woman Farm: The Seasons of Life Shared with Sheepdogs, Goats, Woodstoves, and a Feisty Fiddle
Jenna Woginrich · 207 pages
Jenna Woginrich's inspiring journey from city cubicle to rural homestead has captivated readers of her blog and previous books. Now, in One-Woman Farm, Woginrich shares the joys, sorrows, trials, epiphanies, and blessings she discovers during a year spent farming on her own land, finding deep fulfillment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of the agricultural life.
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Ivan Doig · 314 pages
Autobiography of a newspaperman and editor who grew up in the wilderness of Montana.
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry · 368 pages
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and over
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 368 pages
Warm, leisurely account of author's neighbors, and her everyday affairs while living for thirteen years in a remote section of the Florida hammock at Cross Creek.
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Kim Barnes · 264 pages
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in Northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid-1960s, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of t
We of the Never-Never
Jeannie Gunn · 256 pages
We - are just some of the bush-folk of the Never-Never. In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of ‘The Elsey', a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the st
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 389 pages
The author relates her experience in Kenya, describing not only her own youth but also the country's traditions and people.
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Chris Packham
All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot · 384 pages
David Attenborough's Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
David Attenborough · 384 pages
The Corfu Trilogy
Gerald Durrell · 768 pages
An African Love Story: Life, Love and Elephants
Daphne Sheldrick
The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
Shreve Stockton · 287 pages
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
Jon Katz · 288 pages
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball · 276 pages
When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview an organic farmer called Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter a pig. By the next morning she was tucking into sizzling homemade sausages drizzled with warm maple syrup, and within a few months she
My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen · 137 pages
The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
The Home Ranch
Ralph Moody · 280 pages
Ralph Moody turns again to Colorado, the scene of those two delightful earlier books about his boyhood, Little Britches and Man of the Family. This is an extension of Mr. Moody's recollections of his twelfth year, and fits withing the framework of Man of the Family between chapters 25 and 26. The Home Ranch has all the warm and wonderful ingredients which made his first two books such universa
Skywalker--Close Encounters on the Appalachian trail
Bill Walker · 246 pages
The Orchard: A Memoir
Theresa Weir · 227 pages
The story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards are said to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
Ree Drummond
The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere: a Memoir
Debra Marquart · 270 pages
Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer
Antonia Murphy · 335 pages
"An uproarious memoir chronicling the misadventures of a San Franciscan woman who leaves city life to become an artisan farmer in New Zealand"-- "Antonia Murphy, you might say, is an unlikely farmer. Born and bred in San Francisco, she spent much of her life as a liberal urban cliche, and her interactions with the animal kingdom rarely extended past dinner. But then she became a mother. And when