Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5041686-vicky">Vicky</a> (32 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vicky (32 Lists)

Just a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

The Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff

Summits of My Life by Kilian Jornet

North by Scott Jurek

Armchair Travel: Running Adventures

17 books — 5 voters

Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy

Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris

This Road I Ride by Juliana Buhring

Amber, Furs and Cockleshells by Anne Mustoe

The Ukimwi Road by Dervla Murphy

Armchair Travel: Cycling Adventures

34 books — 4 voters

Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Alone on the Ice by David Roberts

Armchair Travel: Best Books About Disaster and Survival

28 books — 4 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit

Bewildered by Laura Waters

Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Armchair Travel: Best Books About Walking

39 books — 9 voters

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Mawson's Will by Lennard Bickel

Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker

The Storied Ice by Joan N. Boothe

Armchair Travel: Best Books to Explore Antarctica

22 books — 1 voter

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane

No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort

The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer

Armchair Travel: Best Books about Mountains

75 books — 11 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum

Armchair Travel: Best Books About Sailing Adventures

27 books — 4 voters

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy by Gavin Maxwell

Horizon by Barry Lopez

Shark Drunk by Morten A. Strøksnes

Armchair Travel: Best Books About Wildness and Nature

22 books — 4 voters

Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Far North and Other Dark Tales by Sara Maitland

The Last Viking by Stephen R. Bown

Armchair Travel: Best Books About the North

30 books — 4 voters

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Alive by Piers Paul Read

We Die Alone by David Howarth

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Phew! It Didn't Happen to Me.

55 books — 26 voters

Underwater To Get Out of the Rain by Trevor Norton

The Ocean World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson

Diver by Tony Groom

Diving the Depths

263 books — 94 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

100 books — 262 voters

Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown

Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson

The Blackhouse by Peter May

Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

The Lewis Man by Peter May

Windswept and Interesting

61 books — 26 voters

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

Just a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope

Traversa by Fran Sandham

These Boots Are Made For Walking

46 books — 21 voters

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Wild Animus by Rich Shapero

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

La Cucina by Lily Prior

Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy

The Worst Books of All Time

8,104 books — 19,875 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

The Sea Kingdoms by Alistair Moffat

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett

Best Popular Anthropology Books

359 books — 270 voters

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Piano by Jane Campion

The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

Books By New Zealand Authors

873 books — 365 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Wild by Jay Griffiths

Fatu-Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl

Vicarious Thrills

388 books — 419 voters

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Favorite books from my childhood

4,425 books — 7,426 voters

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Just a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Sky Burial by Xinran

Alive by Piers Paul Read

True Life Adventure

386 books — 251 voters

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Sky Burial by Xinran

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Around the World in 100 Books

1,316 books — 706 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

Collapse by Jared Diamond

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,837 books — 3,599 voters

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

129 books — 150 voters

Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown

Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

The Green Isle of the Great Deep by Neil M. Gunn

Books Set in Scotland

1,003 books — 670 voters

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Soldiers of Light by Daniel Bergner

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński

Best books for an African Safari

475 books — 525 voters

The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Sailing Cruising

280 books — 198 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,843 books — 10,496 voters

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher

Down by the Sea

742 books — 560 voters

Sky Burial by Xinran

Wild by Jay Griffiths

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Just a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope

Tales of Adventure

513 books — 474 voters

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Piano by Jane Campion

Prelude by Katherine Mansfield

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

397 books — 203 voters

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