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Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,565 ratings — published 1996
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.80 — 466,464 ratings — published 1987
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,608 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.07 — 459,177 ratings — published 1998
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.92 — 487,975 ratings — published 1903
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,359,662 ratings — published 2018
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,584 ratings — published 1997
White Fang (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,217 ratings — published 1906
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,799,992 ratings — published 2018
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,175 ratings — published 1959
The River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,160 ratings — published 2019
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,741 ratings — published 1854
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.88 — 355,436 ratings — published 1960
The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.83 — 34,190 ratings — published 1991
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.07 — 156,662 ratings — published 1992
Heartwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.89 — 142,478 ratings — published 2025
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,692 ratings — published 1849
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Audio CD)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.91 — 91,903 ratings — published 2017
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,319,564 ratings — published 1954
Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.12 — 44,493 ratings — published 1998
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,312 ratings — published 1968
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,345 ratings — published 1996
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.02 — 183,117 ratings — published 2012
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,750 ratings — published 2011
Brian's Return (Brian's Saga, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,527 ratings — published 1999
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,499 ratings — published 2023
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.97 — 56,998 ratings — published 2002
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.64 — 184,680 ratings — published 1999
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,045,900 ratings — published 2024
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,358 ratings — published 2013
Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.24 — 20,168 ratings — published 2000
Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,300 ratings — published 2002
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,848 ratings — published 1949
Queen of Swords (Wilderness, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,422 ratings — published 2006
Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,909 ratings — published 2004
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,789 ratings — published 1993
The Last Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,200 ratings — published 2006
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,806 ratings — published 2018
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,459 ratings — published 1974
The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.48 — 12,220 ratings — published 2009
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,890 ratings — published 1988
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,290,809 ratings — published 2008
The Tenderness of Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,105 ratings — published 2006
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.09 — 152,722 ratings — published 2021
These Silent Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.02 — 125,491 ratings — published 2021
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.05 — 628,852 ratings — published 2025
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,993 ratings — published 2023
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.67 — 9,014 ratings — published 2020
The Simple Wild (Wild, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.28 — 157,268 ratings — published 2018
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.83 — 128,446 ratings — published 2017
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
―
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
―
