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Outdoorsman and Mountain Man Books...WHAT TO READ BS Thread

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  1. Feb 16, 2021 at 4:40 PM
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    Hey...met a lot of good people on Tacomaworld and Tundras. So I thought maybe someone has my taste in reading. I mostly read about hardship and mountaineering. I would like to read some new books specifically about Mountain Men..or even some new hip rugged adventure stuff...fiction or non fiction.

    I don’t imagine this thread taking off. Hoping for a place for recommendations.
     
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    Here are a few: At the Devil's Table, Wildlife Wars, Girl with Seven Names, The Golden Spruce, Spam Nation, Seaworthy, Alone on the Ice, Farewell - Greatest Spy Story...
     
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    Not the genres you mentioned, but a member here has two EMP books published.
    A World Slowed is the first.
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    Anything about the great Theodore Roosevelt will have some outdoor and adventure/hunting in it.
     
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    Endurance by Alfred Lansing describes Shackleton’s crew’s real life expedition to the South Pole a century ago (spoiler: the ship didn’t make it).

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place    —Aron Ralstron cut off his own arm after it got trapped while he was canyoning alone.

    My favourite book growing up was Dove by Robin Lee Graham— a guy who circumnavigated the Earth alone in a sail boat, starting when he was 16 years old.

    Depending on what others post, or what else you share about what you’re looking for, I may return with some other options. Also, @smslavin started a What Are You Reading thread that has good suggestions. If no one else posts a link, I’ll find it and update.
     
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    The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is good but for kids unfortunately.

    Robert A Heinlein wrote some good sci-fi adventure stories.
     
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    +1 on endurance! Great book. Read it every few years. Everyone who thinks life is rough right now with the winter storms might get a new perspective from this book. Haha.
     
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    Flags of Our Fathers.:thumbsup: Movie was so-so but the book I highly recommend!
     
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    Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowatt
     
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    Last of the Breed (Louis L'Amour) Incredible book and not typical by L'Amour as he is mostly known for his westerns. I've read it many times and I highly recommend it.
     
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    Anything by Peter Hathaway Capstick if you're interested in hunting Africa and John Gierach if you like flyfishing.

    - Becoming Teddy Roosevelt; How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President by Andrew Vietz

    - Hemingway's Guns; The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway by Silvio Calabi

    - The Stranger In The Woods; The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

    - The Survivor's Club; The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood

    - Mountaineering; The Freedom of The Hills

    - Banner In The Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

    I have a pile of outdoors related books I can go through when I have time later on at some point.
     
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    I started reading The Wheel of Time because of another thread on here. Finished book 8 last week. Really like it.
    I had to stop to read our book club book for this month. The Alice Network. It historical fiction based on a real network of female spys in WW2. Highly recommended it.
     
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    For Kids h-ll, I'm 65 and my boys had THE HATCHET , I was going thru some of their old books and found it and read it , really very good . Also read BRIANS WINTER, another Paulson , really good. Too me anyway.
     
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    If you're into the style you've probably already read or seen Jeremiah Johnson.
    Best movie quote ever.
    I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack
     
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    Totally agree, seen movie a few times. Now I need to watch it again to hear that.
     
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    Read Endurance and Between a Rock and a hard place. Both great!
     
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    "The Log of a Cowboy" by Andy Adams is probably the most accurate account of life on the cattle trail ever written.
     
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    Holy shit..I am super happy folks posted. I’ve read some of these books but haven’t with others. I
    loved this book
    intersted in the title. Not familiar with it.
     
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    I enjoyed all his books when I was younger, though I haven't read any of them recently.
     
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    We Took to The Woods. True story about a family that moved to rural Maine and lived in seclusion for 7 years in the 1930s or something like that. They had 5 cars for 2 miles of road and had two homes (one summer, one winter) on a river next to each other. I’ve been to where the book takes place a few times and it’s an amazing place.
     
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    I like the Joe Picket novels by C. J. Box.
     
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    Whoops, I confused my Roberts. Jordan was the one I was thinking of. Heinlan is good too.
     
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    The River of doubt by Candice Millard. About Teddy Roosevelt expedition through the Amazon Rain Forest. Rough trip, almost killed him. Good read.
     
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    Some stuff
    solitude: seeking wisdom in extremes by robert kull

    swell by liz clark

    barbarian days by william finnegan

    arctic drames by barry lopez

    land of the dawn lit mountains by antonia bolingbroke-kent

    chasing the devil by tim butcher

    braving it by james campbell

    vitamin n, last child in the woods, the nature principle by richard louv

    the solace of open spaces by gretel ehrlich

    anything written by john mcphee

    the stranger in the woods by michael finkel

    the mountain that eats men by ander izagirre

    the sun is a compass by carolin van hemert

    here's my original thread...

    https://www.tundras.com/threads/reading-anything-good.15853/
     
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    that was an excellent read
     
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    Hardship? The Road by Cormac McCarthy comes to mind. The Remaining series by DJ Molles is well written, well-researched, and the most plausible of the virus-turning-everyone-into-monsters genre. You can tell his style was influenced by McCarthy. I’m in the middle of Hugh Howey’s Wool, Dust, and Shift (the Silo series) right now. I’d recommend them all.

    Nothing mountaineering specific, even though I’m an avid backpacker. What would you recommend on that front?

    I have Mornings On Horseback. River Of Doubt is on my list. I’m a fan of just about anything TR.
     
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