What to Read After The Control of Nature
Readers who loved The Control of Nature by John McPhee keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Control of Nature is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Control of Nature
Cadillac Desert
Basin and Range
Assembling California
Coming into the Country
Rivers of Empire
The Secret Knowledge of Water
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
Natural Acts
Song for the Blue Ocean
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes - Further Reflections in Natural History
Infrastructure
Down to Earth
Ecology of Fear
About This Life
River Horse
Sound of Mountain Water
Encounters with the Archdruid
The Botany of Desire
The Pine Barrens
Annals of the Former World
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
Founding Fish
Rising from the Plains
Uncommon Carriers