Outdoors


New Releases Tagged "Outdoors"

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Heartwood
Call of the Camino
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Is a River Alive?
Into the Fall
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
The Guide
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)
Small Game
Nowhere for Very Long
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Homeschooling: You're Doing It Right Just by Doing It
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
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)
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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
2,121 books — 1,848 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David MillerStumbling Thru by A. Digger StolzGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryBecoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Best Appalachian Trail Books
83 books — 184 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
856 books — 204 voters
Willa of the Wood by Robert  BeattyEucalyptus by Murray BailMaggie & Abby and the Shipwreck Treehouse by Will  TaylorWhere the Woods Grow Wild by Nate PhilbrickFish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#MGCarousel - Books About Trees
26 books — 2 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Hiking Books
122 books — 36 voters


Frédéric Gros
None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of ...more
Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

Nan Shepherd
Summer on the high plateau can be delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge. To those who love the place, both are good, since both are part of its essential nature. And it is to know its essential nature that I am seeking here. To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living. This is not done easily nor in an hour. It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age, not of immediate enough import for its desperate problems. Yet it has its own rare value. It is, for ...more
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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