Destination Favorites
Destination Favorites
By Destination: Books
Books that we've been recently writing about on the Destination: Books blog or readers have been talking about at our booth.
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
$29.99 $27.89What I Have Been Reading
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Douglas W. Tallamy
$30.00 $27.90A follow up the Bringing Nature Home - flushed out argument on why it is important.
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
Douglas W. Tallamy
$21.99 $20.45Tallamy's book on creating a native habitat in your backyard.
The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology
Eric Lee-Mäder and Beverly Duncan
$20.00 $18.60Highly recommended by one of our most knowledgeable supporters
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Amitav Ghosh
$32.00 $29.76An encompassing world view of look of how opium has shaped our world.
Vertical Gardening: Green Ideas for Small Gardens, Balconies and Patios
Martin Staffler
$24.00 $22.32Growing upwards in small, unconventional spaces
An Inventory of Losses
Judith Schalansky
$18.95 $17.62Essays on lost places and things in Schalansky's inimitable style
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer
$18.95 $17.62You will never look at moss the same after reading this.
A Father's Letters: Connecting Past to Present
Murray Browne
$9.95 $9.25From the owner of Destination: Books - a memoir of correspondence combined with ruminations about retirement.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Hannah Ritchie
$30.00 $27.90Corrects a lot of misconceptions we have about the health of our planet
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
$20.00 $18.60A broad, very readable and personal introduction to fungi.
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
$29.00 $26.97What hell on Earth looks like, but one way to combat fear of the future is to know what is going on.
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Judith Schalansky
$30.00 $27.90Quirky and entertaining. Travel without the travel.
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Amy Stewart
$17.99 $16.73All things earthworms - funny and informative
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation
Tradd Cotter
$39.95 $37.15The standard
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
$34.95 $32.50The book that got Destination: Books thinking.
Destination: Books is an Atlanta based pop-up book stall specializing in organic gardening - sustainability, history, books about books, and travel. In addition to selling new books online via bookshop.org, Destination: Books also sells second-hand books online via Alibris at destinationbooks.net