Favorite wilderness-type books

firecrotch

firecrotch

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I'm hoping to find some new books to read. Some books that I've read and loved that are wilderness-based include Into the Wild, Desert Solitaire and a Walk in the Woods. Any other recommendations?
 
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You will love this book. I guarantee it.
 
Not so much wilderness, but the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy is awesome. The second book (Men Against the Sea) is incredible. Dudes in a 20 foot boat, sailing something like 3600 miles.
 
I just finished "Ones Mans Wilderness" which was a cool book. It's the journals of Richard Proenneke who goes up to Alaska and lives off the land, it's pretty interesting reading about what he does day today to survive as well as him building almost everything by hand.
 
The frontiersman by Allan W. Eckert. It's an awesome book about early North America and its Settlers and Indian interactions. It's all true and super good. Pretty long though. One of my favourite books.
 
13803410:iFlip said:
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You will love this book. I guarantee it.
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Started this this morning and I'm over half way done with it ha. Thank god for audiobooks. This is a fantastic read.

I started Shackleton's book South a while ago but got bored with it quickly since it seems to be only about his preparation and command structure for the trip. Maybe I should continue that one after this book.
 
Hey Gang, I resurrected this old post to catch any readers and tell you about a book I wrote. I dug up old memories of skibumming Crested Butte back in the day and combined it with a thought I had for the perfect heist. So this isn't the product of some author attempting to crack into the skiing market, it's just a skier who tried to write a book I'd like to read and you might like it too. At the very least it might take you out of the summer heat and drop you into a midwinter powder day.

Check it out for free herehttps://www.inkitt.com/stories/adventure/229842?version=1

Buy the paperback or $2.99 ebook herehttp://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-reinholt/pow/paperback/product-23685720.html

or just check it out and like it herehttps://www.facebook.com/POWtheBook/?ref=profile_intro_card

Thanks, maybe I'll share a chair with you this season.
 
Sorry Mod, does that mean my post was unwelcome? If you could offer criticism I'd appreciate it, because the same thing happened at TGR. Do I come off as a business trying to just use your forum to sell stuff? Is it that I'm a forum nobody and that's my first post? I get that, it is a little tacky. I just don't find a lot of time for forums. Do you think it would have made a difference if I had 1,000 posts up?

You don't even have to respond to this if I don't deserve it, Hell just delete my post if it has no place here.... or help me out with some ideas to reach skiers and slednecks who read. Thanks either way
 
Paddle to the amazon - About a guy and his son who canoe from Winnipeg to amazon

High adventure - Account of the first ascent of amazon
 
13932259:OrganicMechanic said:
Hey Gang, I resurrected this old post to catch any readers and tell you about a book I wrote. I dug up old memories of skibumming Crested Butte back in the day and combined it with a thought I had for the perfect heist. So this isn't the product of some author attempting to crack into the skiing market, it's just a skier who tried to write a book I'd like to read and you might like it too. At the very least it might take you out of the summer heat and drop you into a midwinter powder day.

Check it out for free herehttps://www.inkitt.com/stories/adventure/229842?version=1

Buy the paperback or $2.99 ebook herehttp://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-reinholt/pow/paperback/product-23685720.html

or just check it out and like it herehttps://www.facebook.com/POWtheBook/?ref=profile_intro_card

Thanks, maybe I'll share a chair with you this season.
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Just read this and it's actually dope man, good job. Sorry I didn't buy it and took the free version there. Kinda want to buy it now to support it. Great read.
 
Eiger Dreams

No Shortcuts to the Top

The Will to Climb

K2 Life and Death on the Worlds Most Dangerous Mountain

Touching the Void

Annapurna

They're all great mountaineering books
 
13964216:-skian- said:
Just read this and it's actually dope man, good job. Sorry I didn't buy it and took the free version there. Kinda want to buy it now to support it. Great read.
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SKIAN thank you so much! I’m so glad you liked it! The paperback has less typos and some fun pictures in it, but I’m already grateful that you posted a recommendation here. Thanks for the support!
 
If you liked Ed Abbey, check out Beyond the Wall or The Journey Home - both a lot like Des Solitaire. If you like some brutal merciless wilderness fiction, try the borderlands (?) series by Cormac McCarthy, starting with All the Pretty Horses. That book will figuratively beat the shit out of you.
 
13964557:toast said:
If you liked Ed Abbey, check out Beyond the Wall or The Journey Home - both a lot like Des Solitaire. If you like some brutal merciless wilderness fiction, try the borderlands (?) series by Cormac McCarthy, starting with All the Pretty Horses. That book will figuratively beat the shit out of you.
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hell yea will do, love what I've read by mccarthy before
 
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Love Paulson, I read this again on a train a few weeks ago. Along with "Caught by the Sea".
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I was stoked to read some of his stuff again 4 or 5 years ago. Decent size font, interesting and not terribly long. Had a bad head injury but wanted to read a bit. Stuff is the bomb.
 
Some good recommendations in here. Kon Tiki is awesome, read it!

Also, a little different, but try out Barkskins. It's really, really good!
 
13965133:.SHAGGY. said:
Who else had to read this for English class in elementary school?
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I think everyone. We read it in 5th grade I think.

13965109:Willgum said:
Read this in middle school and it was the impetus for getting me stoked about nature and the outdoors.
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Yeah it's good vibes. Well sorta. Idk. Hadnt rwad it since I was like 12. Brought back some memories.
 
Its not about wilderness exactly but there is a historical fiction book series called Flashman. The first in the series (Called just "Flashman") is about the British disaster in Afghanistan during the 1800s where they tried to retreat from Kabul and the whole army died in the mountains from weather and tribal raids. It goes over his expulsion from school and joining the army and deployment to India then Afghanistan. Its a really funny book too as Flashman is a coward and womanizer who always gets lucky in the end. Its one of those books where I literally have a smirk on my face the whole time I read it.
 
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