“From these things therefore it is clear that the city-state is a natural growth, and that man is by nature an animal that lives in a polis, and a man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it […]” – Aristotle, “Politics” […]
As regular readers will likely already know, I love a good general nature guide. Not to say that subject-focused guides don’t have their appropriate uses, but for me, the best “bang for your buck” can often be found in a book that takes a given area and tells the reader a bit about the range of flora and fauna, as well as perhaps even the geology and weather, of the area.