Our next nature book club is Tursday, April 21, 7:00 pm, and may be in person at the Mount Pleasant Public Library in Pleasantville OR via Zoom. Register for updates and reminders using form below.
Our book selection is Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wilds, by Ryan Goldberg
- Ryan Goldberger will also be the keynote speaker at our annual dinner on Sunday, April 26, a community potluck. More about our dinner and reservations are here: https://www.sawmillriveraudubon.org/dinner
Through the four seasons, Goldberg takes readers to all five boroughs, through the city’s most famous parks and landmarks. He pursues rare and common species alike, increasing his count and deepening his understanding of how and why birds make their home in this smoggy, noisy, concrete-coated environment.
Use the form below to RSVP.
Once you are added to the Book Club list, we’ll send you a reminder email with the Zoom link.
We’ll also remind you about future Book Club gatherings.
Nature Book Club
Come gather with our Nature Book Club as we discuss books of interest in the world of science and natural history.
Our Book Club typically meets on Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm, once every two months or so and is coordinated by SMRA Board Member Kathleen Williamson. You are invited!
Use the form below to RSVP and you will receive reminder emails with the Zoom link.
You’ll also be added to our private Book Club list for notice of upcoming Book Clubs.
past book club selections
Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia by Wade Davis
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Birding to Change the World, A Memoir by Trish O’Kane
The Devil’s Element, Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan
The Darkness Manifesto by Johann Eklöf
The Sea Trilogy by Rachel Carlson
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina
Leave it as it Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness by David Gessner
Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
Birds of the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast by Jennifer Ackerman
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
Birding Without Borders by Noah Strycker
What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin
Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Essays by John Muir
Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
American Eden by Victoria Johnson
Ice: the Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson
A View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina
Underland, A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
The Moth Snowstorm, Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
Becoming Wild Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Nancy R. Hugo, Photography by Robert Llewellyn