I’ve recently been reading a lot about the great outdoors as the weather has gotten nicer. I blitzed through everything from Bill Heavey, Steven Rinella, Patrick F. McManus and John Gierach. Looking for some authors or titles that I may be over looking. To me there is nothing better than enjoying the outdoors with a great book about the outdoors.
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Into the Wild, anything by John Krakauer – especially Into Thin Air, The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Into the Woods by Bill Bryson. All of the above are technically “nonfiction.”
ETA: The correct spelling of Krakauer.
***Travels with Charley*** by John Steinbeck and ***Grandma Gatewood’s Walk*** by Ben Montgomery are two good ones.
For something different, you might look at “The Old Man and the Boy” by Robert Ruark
The Incredible Journey of Plants
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It’s a Netflix show I think but I’m not gonna watch it because the book was so incredible.
Slightly different vibe, but I just finished the Cold Vanish- it’s about how many people go missing in the United States in national forests / parks. It’s a wild read.
Brave the Wild River
The untold story of Two women who mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By Melissa Sevigny
Also check out Peter Heller’s The River & The Guide
A very random one that I thoroughly enjoyed was Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams. The author is a Manhattan magazine editor who decided to retrace the steps of Hiram Bingham and the discovery of MP, despite the fact that he has never even slept in a tent before. If you read this, you will probably want to go to Peru.
The man who walked through time by Colin Fletcher.
The first thru hike of the Grand Canyon below the rim.