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Outdoor adventure book reccomendations

I've been on an "outdoors" book kick lately, and I'm looking for recommendations for a few more. I've recently finished White Winds and Touching the Void. I've also read (though not recently) just about everything Jack London and Gary Paulson have written. Oh, and I absolutely despise Jon Krakauer so no Into thin air or Into the Wild.

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    "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
    "Between a rock and a hard place" by Aron Ralston

    Otterpop answered in Books & Writing about 1 year ago | Report
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    Go look up the Adventure Library (link: Amazon). They have republished many of the classic adventure narratives, from the 18th century until now. Anything they publish is great, and as far as I know, most of it is non-fiction.

    A few specific titles come to mind:

    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage -- Non-fiction account of Shackleton's failed attempt to reach the South Pole, and the survival of the entire crew after their ship was caught in the ice.

    Alone - Non-fiction account of a winter that Richard Byrd spent alone in a remote antarctic weather station in the 1920's.

    K2: Savage Mountain -- An account of the first American ascent of K2 in the Himalayas.

    Adrift: 76 Days at Sea -- A man sets out to sail around the world alone. His sailboat breaks up on the west african coast, and he drifts across the Atlantic ocean.

    MyrnaMinkoff answered in Books & Writing about 1 year ago | Report
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