Outdoors


Call of the Camino
The Great Outdoors
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
The Briars
Crux
Is a River Alive?
The Guide
Warning Signs
Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)
Nowhere for Very Long
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
The Last Ranger
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Desert Solitaire
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Wanderland by Jini ReddyGreen Unpleasant Land by Corinne FowlerThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorHidden Nature by Alys FowlerWomen on Nature by Katharine Norbury
Diversity in the Outdoors UK
13 books — 4 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,198 books — 1,956 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Trees, Woods, Forests
861 books — 206 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainBorn to Run by Christopher McDougallOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
#GetOutside
245 books — 68 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryWild by Cheryl StrayedInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Hiking Books
122 books — 37 voters
The Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonLucky by Scott NelsonAbyssinian Nomad by Maskarm HaileThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew Lightfoot
Best Traveling Vicariously II
105 books — 58 voters


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Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
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