Best of Outdoor Literature

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,044 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,107 ratings
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon 4.43 avg rating — 13,625 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,571 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,312 ratings
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
Walden and Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,624 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,157 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,362 ratings
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Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams 4.23 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by: Will Hunt
3.81 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature 4.24 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain 4.28 avg rating — 8,428 ratings
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot 4.13 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,811 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating — 4,537 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
Encounters with the Archdruid 4.22 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
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Down the River
Down the River 4.18 avg rating — 2,476 ratings
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating — 14,015 ratings
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside 4.23 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Sightlines
Sightlines 4.26 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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The Wild Places
The Wild Places 4.25 avg rating — 5,424 ratings
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The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West 4.18 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
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Crossing Open Ground
Crossing Open Ground 4.17 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World 4.17 avg rating — 5,286 ratings
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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World 4.32 avg rating — 694 ratings
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The Next Everest
The Next Everest 4.09 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West 4.39 avg rating — 12,272 ratings
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On Trails: An Exploration
On Trails: An Exploration 3.96 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
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Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue
Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue 4.33 avg rating — 464 ratings
29.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,841 ratings
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Turned Out Nice Again: Living with the Weather
Turned Out Nice Again: Living with the Weather 3.77 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Blue Highways
Blue Highways 4.03 avg rating — 24,991 ratings
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Common Ground
Common Ground
by: Rob Cowen
4.17 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather 3.84 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland 4.21 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life
Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life 4.31 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Last of the Curlews
Last of the Curlews 4.20 avg rating — 414 ratings
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A High and Lonely Place
A High and Lonely Place really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
42.
The Practice of the Wild
The Practice of the Wild 4.19 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
by: Tim Dee
3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings
43.
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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7 Days & Beyond in Grand Teton National Park: Discover the Highlights and the Road Less Traveled in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole
7 Days & Beyond in Grand Teton National Park: Discover the Highlights and the Road Less Traveled in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
43.
Looking Through Water
Looking Through Water
by: Bob Rich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78 ratings
43.
Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico
Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
43.
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
43.
Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness
Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness 4.20 avg rating — 217 ratings
43.
Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers
Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Crimson Arrows: A Bowhunting Odyssey
Crimson Arrows: A Bowhunting Odyssey 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Denali Skies
Denali Skies 3.86 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Tides: A Climber's Voyage
Tides: A Climber's Voyage 4.32 avg rating — 92 ratings
43.
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life 4.08 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Easternmost House
The Easternmost House 3.67 avg rating — 315 ratings
43.
Theodore Roosevelt for Nature Lovers: Adventures with America's Great Outdoorsman
Theodore Roosevelt for Nature Lovers: Adventures with America's Great Outdoorsman 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
43.
Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
43.
The Phoenix Rising: A True Story of Survival
The Phoenix Rising: A True Story of Survival 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
43.
The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West
The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure
Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure 3.99 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Moonstone Hero
Moonstone Hero 3.61 avg rating — 49 ratings
62.
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology 4.17 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents
Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Water Falls Down
Water Falls Down 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art 4.38 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy 4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven 4.21 avg rating — 314 ratings
70.
Sideways Snow (Water Falls Down, #2).
Sideways Snow (Water Falls Down, #2). 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Kinder Scout - The People's Mountain
Kinder Scout - The People's Mountain 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 4.24 avg rating — 607 ratings
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In the Land of Giants: Hunting Monsters in the Hindu Kush
In the Land of Giants: Hunting Monsters in the Hindu Kush 3.51 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River 4.41 avg rating — 223 ratings
74.
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain 3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings
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The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers
The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers 4.59 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Among Mountains
Among Mountains 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
78.
Under the Arctic Sun: Gwich'In, Caribou, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Under the Arctic Sun: Gwich'In, Caribou, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
78.
A Language Older Than Words
A Language Older Than Words 4.29 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
78.
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
78.
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka 4.23 avg rating — 929 ratings
78.
Moody Forest
Moody Forest 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
78.
River in a Dry Land
River in a Dry Land 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings
85.
The Thousand-Mile Summer in desert and high sierra
The Thousand-Mile Summer in desert and high sierra 4.15 avg rating — 397 ratings
85.
In The Shadow Of Man
In The Shadow Of Man 4.36 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
85.
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature 4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings
85.
The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent 3.81 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land 4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
90.
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon 3.95 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
90.
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 28,454 ratings
90.
Mountaineer: A Lifetime of Climbing the Great Mountains of the World
Mountaineer: A Lifetime of Climbing the Great Mountains of the World 4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food 4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings
94.
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey 4.35 avg rating — 121 ratings
94.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder 3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings
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The Year: Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
The Year: Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record 4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home
Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home 4.16 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Old Man On His Back: Portrait of a Prairie Landscape
Old Man On His Back: Portrait of a Prairie Landscape 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind 4.22 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Punk in the Gym
Punk in the Gym 3.81 avg rating — 47 ratings
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