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Fresh Pond Reading Group Record: 2007 - 2019

Book Title
Authors
Date
# Attended
Reading the Landscape of America
May Thielgaard Watts
04-04-07
8
The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson
05-05-07
7
The Wilderness World of John Muir
Edwin Way Teale, ed.
10-02-07
12
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich
01-09-08
15
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
03-19-08
14
Written in Stone
Chet and Maureen Raymo
06-11-08
15
Waiting for Aphrodite
Sue Hubbell
10-15-08
18
Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
Catherine Reid
01-14-09
17
The Frozen Water Trade
Gavin Weightman
03-11-09
21
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
05-27-09
14
The Trees in My Forest
Bernd Heinrich
09-16-09
17
Reflections in Bullough's Pond
Diana Muir
11-11-09
14
Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History of New England's Stone Walls
Robert Thornson
02-10-10
20
Armchair Birding
John Yow
04-28-10
17
The Wild Out Your Window
Sy Montgomery
6-16-10
10
Anthill
Edward O. Wilson
9-22-10
13
Bright Wings
Dennis Collins, ed
11-10-10
15
Outside Lies Magic
John R. Stilgoe
03-02-11
13
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder
5-18-11
14
Summer World
Bernd Heinrich
09-21-11
11
The Global Forest
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
11-16-11
10
Water
Alice Outwater
02-08-11
9
Eden on the Charles Michael Rowson 04-25-12 9
The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age Edmund Blair Bolles 06-13-12 7
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of life on Earth Richard Conniff 09-19-12 10
Beyond Walden; The Hidden History of America's Kettle Lakes and Ponds Robert Thornson 11-28-12 11
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind Richard Fortey 01-16-13 10
Moonbird, A Year On the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Phillip Hoose 04-17-13 7
Song for the Blue Ocean Carl Safina 6-19-13 7
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest Joan Maloof 9-25-13 12
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years Robert M. Hazen 11-13-13 12
A Year in the Maine Woods Bernd Heinrich 2-5-14 8
Ever Since Darwin Steven Jay Gould 4-23-14 7
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter Marc Bekoff 6-18-14 11
The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson 10-22-14 9
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years Richard Fortey 2-24-15 7
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death Bernd Heinrich 4-29-15 9
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds Jim Sterba 6-24-15 8
Galileo's Commandment:
2,500 Years of Great Science Writing
Edmund Blair Bolles 9-16-15 6
Ceremonial Time:
Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
John Hanson Mitchell 11-11-15 8
Autumn: A Season of Change Peter J. Marchand 1-20-16 8
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum Richard Fortey 3-23-16 6
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding Scott Weidensaul 5-25-16 4
The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America’s Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite Tom Wessels 9-21-16 6
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species Sean B. Carroll 12-7-16 9
The Kingdom of Rarities Eric Dinerstein 3-15-17 9
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do Wallace J. Nichols 5-17-17 9
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans De Waal 9-20-17 11
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins Jonathan Balcombe 11-29-17 8
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 Simon Winchester 1-24-18 10
The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration  Bernd Heinrich 3-28-18 7
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Simon Winchester 6-20-18 8
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer 9-19-18 9
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert Craig Childs 1-23-19 9
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions Peter Brannen 3-27-19 11
Crossing Paths:  Uncommon Encounters of Animals in the Wild Craig Childs 5-29-19 8
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrew Wulf 10-2-19 11
Walden Henry David Thoreau 12-4-19 9
The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben 2-19-20