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Any good books on the great outdoors?

  • 06-08-2015 8:24am
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    Wailin
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    Read a book recently by John Williams called Butcher's Crossing and really enjoyed it. Great story telling about buffalo hunters in the late 1800's. Anyone recommend similar books of that style? Doesn't have to be from that era, it can be from modern times too. Have read most of Cormac McCarthy's stuff too in case anyone mentions his stuff.


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    Aenaes
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    Mark Twain, "Roughing it". A semi-autobiographical novel about travelling through the American Frontier during the 1860s. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn could also count.

    Theodore Roosevelt wrote alot of books and had quite a few adventures, probably worth checking out.

    Death Zone by Matt Dickinson. An account of climbing Everest just after a storm which killed other climbers in 1996.


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    Arsemageddon
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    Into the Silence by Wade Davis

    It's an account of a doomed expedition to climb Everest in the 1920's that may have been the first to actually reach the summit.

    .......or anything by Jack London


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    seagull
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    I'm not sure if these are quite in the vein you're after, but you can give them a try

    No picnic on mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi - Italian PoWs escaping from a camp to try and climb Mount Kenya

    Bush bashers - Len Beadell - A book about building a road across the Nullarbor in Australia.


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    Carawaystick
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    Bill Bryson's book about the Appalachian trail


  • #6
    Wailin
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    Carawaystick wrote: »
    Bill Bryson's book about the Appalachian trail

    Thanks, read it years ago, very enjoyable.


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