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
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
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Long Walk by Slavomir RawiczThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonMiracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
Near Death Adventure
31 books — 32 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
Mycelium Running by Paul StametsAll That the Rain Promises and More by David AroraMushrooms Demystified by David AroraThe Kingdom of Fungi by Jens H. PetersenMushrooms of the Pacific Northwest by Steve Trudell
Mushrooming
42 books — 20 voters



Frédéric Gros
Blinding, mineral, shattering silence. You hear nothing but the quiet crunch of stones underfoot. An implacable, definitive silence, like a transparent death. Sky of a perfectly detached blue. You advance with eyes down, reassuring yourself sometimes with a silent mumbling. Cloudless sky, limestone slabs filled with presence: silence nothing can sidestep. Silence fulfilled, vibrant immobility, tensed like a bow. There’s the silence of early morning. For long routes in autumn you have to start ve ...more
Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

Edward Abbey
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

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