Looking for recommendations for someone who loves nature and the outdoors. Anything from primitive survival, essential skills in the back country, or stories having to do with being out in the wilderness.
John Muir: Rediscovering America by Frederick Turner
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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The anarchist cookbook
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (nonfiction)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (nonfiction)
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Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille
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I’m massive into the natural world myself. Here are the essentials according to me and other outdoors people:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The books of Paul Theroux, Henry David Thoreau (no relation), Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake. If you like Thoreau’s politics, try William Godwin, Rousseau, and John Zerzan, but be very careful because you will be recommended the Unabomber’s manifesto at some point.
The SAS Survival Guide
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
There’s a vast genre of literature about and by hunters. I haven’t’t read her, but Agnes Herbert looks fascinating. There’s a great short story called The Most Dangerous Game if, like me, you don’t like people who just kill for fun. If you’re in this to commune compassionately with every leaf and insect, you would like Peter Singer who is *very much not* a hunter.
Then there’s your local Indigenous literature. I’m in Australia, and some of my favorites are Alexis Carey, Tony Birch, and Bruce Pascoe. You can find literature about local Country wherever you are, even Europe.
There are quite a few nonfiction works to take with salt. Thoreau wrote Walden about a mile out of town, where his mother brought him lunch every day. The book might be even better if you go in knowing that. You will hear about Carlos Castaneda, just know that he and just about every other modern shaman is making it all up. Google will tell you whose biographies are legit. Do some homework on New Age traditions in general, just about everyone writing about European natural heritage these days is mixing fiction with eugenics and calling it fact.
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Anything by John Gierach or Patrick McManus. Examples include Standing in a river waving a stick, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman, Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink, The Grasshopper Trap, etc.
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John Muir: Rediscovering America by Frederick Turner
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The anarchist cookbook
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (nonfiction)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (nonfiction)
Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille
I’m massive into the natural world myself. Here are the essentials according to me and other outdoors people:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The books of Paul Theroux, Henry David Thoreau (no relation), Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake. If you like Thoreau’s politics, try William Godwin, Rousseau, and John Zerzan, but be very careful because you will be recommended the Unabomber’s manifesto at some point.
The SAS Survival Guide
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
There’s a vast genre of literature about and by hunters. I haven’t’t read her, but Agnes Herbert looks fascinating. There’s a great short story called The Most Dangerous Game if, like me, you don’t like people who just kill for fun. If you’re in this to commune compassionately with every leaf and insect, you would like Peter Singer who is *very much not* a hunter.
Then there’s your local Indigenous literature. I’m in Australia, and some of my favorites are Alexis Carey, Tony Birch, and Bruce Pascoe. You can find literature about local Country wherever you are, even Europe.
There are quite a few nonfiction works to take with salt. Thoreau wrote Walden about a mile out of town, where his mother brought him lunch every day. The book might be even better if you go in knowing that. You will hear about Carlos Castaneda, just know that he and just about every other modern shaman is making it all up. Google will tell you whose biographies are legit. Do some homework on New Age traditions in general, just about everyone writing about European natural heritage these days is mixing fiction with eugenics and calling it fact.
Anything by John Gierach or Patrick McManus. Examples include Standing in a river waving a stick, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman, Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink, The Grasshopper Trap, etc.