Orion Book AwardFinalist

44 teosta 40,414 kirjaa 1,615 arvostelua ½ 3.9
The Orion Book Award was founded in 2007 to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing.
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (12), Finalist (44)
Luokat:
Kaikki, Fiktio (6), Tietokirjallisuus (7), No Category (31)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2016 (3), 2015 (7), 2014 (6), 2013 (4), 2012 (4), 2011 (4), 2010 (4), 2009 (4), 2008 (4), 2007 (4)

Finalist 44

TeosKategoriaVuosi
The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America (tekijä: Summer Brennan)2016
H niin kuin haukka (tekijä: Helen Macdonald)2016
A river runs again : India's natural world in crisis (tekijä: Meera Subramanian)2016
Long Man (tekijä: Amy Greene)Fiction2015
Invisible Beasts (tekijä: Sharona Muir)Fiction2015
Divine Animal (tekijä: Scott Russell Sanders)Fiction2015
Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (tekijä: Alison Hawthorne Deming)Nonfiction2015
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming (tekijä: McKenzie Funk)Nonfiction2015
A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World (tekijä: Jay Griffiths)Nonfiction2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (tekijä: Elizabeth Kolbert)Nonfiction2015
All the Land to Hold Us: A Novel (tekijä: Rick Bass)Fiction2014
The Last Animal (tekijä: Abby Geni)Fiction2014
Archipelago (tekijä: Monique Roffey)Fiction2014
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild (tekijä: Lyanda Lynn Haupt)Nonfiction2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (tekijä: Robin Wall Kimmerer)Nonfiction2014
Maailma täynnä meitä : viimeinen yritys maapallon pelastamiseksi? (tekijä: Alan Weisman)Nonfiction2014
Flight Behavior (tekijä: Barbara Kingsolver)2013
Things That Are (tekijä: Amy Leach)2013
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (tekijä: Robert Macfarlane)2013
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry (tekijä: Joe Wilkins)2013
Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout (tekijä: Philip Connors)2012
Oil on Water (tekijä: Helon Habila)2012
Swamplandia! (tekijä: Karen Russell)2012
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) (tekijä: Sandra Steingraber)2012
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (tekijä: David Abram)2011
About a Mountain (tekijä: John D'Agata)2011
Tiikeri tositarina kostosta, elämästä ja kuolemasta (tekijä: John Vaillant)2011
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean (tekijä: Julia Whitty)2011
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (tekijä: Wade Davis)2010
Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape (tekijä: Richard Manning)2010
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.) (tekijä: Lydia Peelle)2010
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (tekijä: Curtis White)2010
The Wild Places (tekijä: Robert Macfarlane)2009
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (tekijä: James Gustave Speth)2009
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies (tekijä: Ginger Strand)2009
Finding Beauty in a Broken World (tekijä: Terry Tempest Williams)2009
Strange as this Weather Has Been (tekijä: Ann Pancake)2008
The Wild Trees (tekijä: Richard Preston)2008
Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place (tekijä: Robert Michael Pyle)2008
Maailma ilman meitä (tekijä: Alan Weisman)2008
The Lives of Rocks (tekijä: Rick Bass)2007
Inferno (tekijä: Charles Bowden)2007
Returning to Earth (tekijä: Jim Harrison)2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (tekijä: Michael Pollan)2007

Kuvailut

The Orion Book Award was founded in 2007 to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing. (English, Member-written)
The Orion Book Award is given annually to a book that addresses the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought provoking, and engaging manner. Four additional books are named as finalists. Books eligible for the Orion Book Award are judged against these criteria: • That it deepens our connection to the natural world • That it presents new ideas about our relationship with nature • That it achieves excellence in writing The Orion Book Award recognizes books published in North America during the previous calendar year. Nominations for the award are made by advisors, writers, editors, and contributing editors of Orion. Selection of the winning book and four finalists are made by a five-person selection committee, which changes annually. Nominations from authors or from publishers, editors, or agents of books that they have been involved with are not accepted. More information about previous Orion Book Award winners and finalists is available here. (English, Member-written)

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