Bargain @ $1.99 from HarperCollins for some science/nature books in Canada & the US (linkage goes to Kobo, prices should be the same in all the usual stores):
- Paradise Under Glass: An Amateur Creates a Conservatory Garden & A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants by Ruth Kassinger, who writes introductory science books for kids. These are her sequential scientific discovery memoirs, in which she learns to garden, and in turn learns about the history of botany.
- Condor: To the Brink and Back--the Life and Times of One Giant Bird by John Nielsen, a history of conservation efforts by an environmental journalist
- Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by Richard Horan, one of those themed travelogue sorts of journals
- An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins (Wikipedia), 1st part of a 2-volume autobiographical memoir by the sometimes controversial biologist and atheist, if you think you might be interested