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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.07 — 459,339 ratings — published 1998
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 340 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,893 ratings — published 1996
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,824 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,934 ratings — published 2012
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,327 ratings — published 1968
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,911 ratings — published 1988
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.30 — 240,374 ratings — published 2009
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,905 ratings — published 1998
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,861 ratings — published 1949
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,417 ratings — published 2014
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,788 ratings — published 1854
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.80 — 466,574 ratings — published 1987
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.44 — 16,217 ratings — published 2013
The Last Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,205 ratings — published 2006
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,504 ratings — published 1990
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,011 ratings — published 1960
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.47 — 180,640 ratings — published 1959
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,518 ratings — published 2013
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Audio CD)
by (shelved 60 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.91 — 91,963 ratings — published 2017
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.12 — 15,861 ratings — published 2006
On Trails: An Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,372 ratings — published 2016
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,729 ratings — published 1986
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills ( (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,475 ratings — published 2014
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.92 — 488,130 ratings — published 1903
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,646 ratings — published 2024
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,008 ratings — published 2023
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,889 ratings — published 2010
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,035 ratings — published 1973
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,209 ratings — published 2019
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)
by (shelved 44 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,470 ratings — published 2014
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,195 ratings — published 2004
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,195 ratings — published 1959
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,787 ratings — published 2006
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,445 ratings — published 2015
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,353 ratings — published 2017
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,450 ratings — published 2005
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,461 ratings — published 2018
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,733 ratings — published 1911
The River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,194 ratings — published 2019
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 38 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,887 ratings — published 1951
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,953 ratings — published 2018
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,007 ratings — published 1997
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,026 ratings — published 2006
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,699 ratings — published 2008
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,901 ratings — published 2015
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,474 ratings — published 1974
Heartwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as outdoors)
avg rating 3.89 — 142,983 ratings — published 2025
The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,195 ratings — published 2012
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,867 ratings — published 2020
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as outdoors)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,246 ratings — published 2017
“But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.”
― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
“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 mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.”
― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
