Recommend me a great non-fiction book?
Hi guys, I’m not much of a reader, but I’m trying to read more and since I’m going on holidays soon, I’d love a good book to take with me.
My interests.
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Nature, angling, hunting
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Science – chemistry etc
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Documents like wikileaks- uncovering government corruption etc
All opinions and suggestions welcome
Thanks
by 282sligo
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Max Tegmark’s speculative non-fiction **Life 3.0** presents the spectrum of futures mankind is facing due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. He’s a physics professor and leans heavily into the ‘how’ it could occur.
Nature:
– *Eager: The Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter* by Ben Goldfarb
– *The Secret Lives of Bats* by Merlin Tuttle
– *Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying Birds in Your Own Backyard* by Joan E. Strassman
Science:
– *The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* by Rebecca Sloot (also some corruption involved)
– *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry* by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins is my favorite book in your third category.
A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach are both great. Almost anything by Jon Krakauer might work for you, but particularly Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.
River of Doubt by C.Millard re T Roosevelt Amazon Expedition.
Chaos by Tom O’Neill
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (about the periodic table)
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton (about Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (funny nature/travel writing)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (about his travels in Australia. It’s laugh out loud hilarious)
The best non fiction is The Endurance by Lansing. It’s about Ernest Shackleton and his crew trying to he the first to cross Antartica. It goes very wrong almost instantly and every single page is crazier than the last. I’ve given it to 3 people and they all said they couldn’t put it down. It’s hard to describe just how insane this adventure is.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is absolutely wild.
I always knew about Shackleton and the Endurance, but the whole story is bananas. The calm way the entire crew handles every hurdle is incredible.