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    Fiction:
    Hatchet -- Gary Paulson
    My Side of the Mountain -- Jean Craighead George
    Robinson Carusoe -- Daniel DeFoe
    Northwest Passage -- Kenneth Roberts
    The Endurance -- Caroline Alexander


    Non Fiction:
    The Foxfire Series -- Various Authors
    98.6 -- The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive -- Cody Lundlin
    When Technology Fails -- Matthew Stein
    FM 21-76 -- US ARMY Survival Manual
    Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West --Gregory Tilford
    Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants -- "Wild Man" Steve Brill
    Back to Basics -- Reader's Digest
    SAS Survival Manual -- John "Lofty" Wiseman
    SAS Combat Survival Guide -- John "Lofty" Wiseman
    How to Stay Alive in the Woods -- Bradford Angiers
    Household Cyclopedia
    The Encyclopedia of Country Living -- Carla Emery
    Backwoods Home Magazine Anthologies
    Handyman In-Your-Pocket -- Richard Allen Young
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    Nourishing Traditions -- Sally Fallon
    30 Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build -- Alex Wade
    Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual -- Reader's Digest
    Fix-It-Yourself Manual -- Reader's Digest
    North American Wildlife -- Reader's Digest
    ABCs of the Human Body -- Reader's Digest
    Five Acres and Independence -- M.G. Kains
    Practical Electrical Wiring -- Richter & Schwan
    Housebuilding, A Do-It-Yourself Guide -- Popular Science
    Complete Building Construction -- Audel
    The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home -- McGuerty & Lester
    Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Max -- Alth
    Home Plumbing Projects & Repairs -- Black & Decker Home Improvement Library
    Modern Hydronic Heating -- John Siegenthaler
    Family Medical Guide -- The American Medical Association
    Complete Home Medical Guide -- The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
    The Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency -- John Seymour
    Joy of Cooking -- Irma S. Rombauer
    New Complete Self-sufficiency -- John Seymour
    Stocking Up -- Carol Stoner
    Bespoke Shoemaking -- Tim Skyrme
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    All Time Fiction:

    Master and Commander and the entire series by Patrick O'Brien-- If you want to see how passionate people can get about a series of books check out the archives at this list http://www.hmssurprise.org/

    All Time Non Fiction:

    The Old Patagonia Express and most any of Paul Thoreau's travel memoirs-- Its a crying shame this writer didn't get to the AT before Bryson.

    All Time Outdoors/Nature Guidebook:

    Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendez-- The only book of its type you can really enjoy on the couch before heading back into the woods.

    All Time AT Book:

    The Thru Hiker Papers. Well, not exactly a book, but they are more expansive than Warren Doyle's tome. They are at this link, and one of the few things that might be considered required reading (IMHO)prior to a thru hike. http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/THP_top.html

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    the Dharma Bums - jack kerouac
    The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
    Anything by Abbey
    Into the Wild - Jon Krakaur
    The Sun also Rises - Hemingway
    The Catcher in the rye - JD Sallinger
    Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie


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    Quote Originally Posted by rickb View Post
    All Time Fiction:

    Master and Commander and the entire series by Patrick O'Brien-- If you want to see how passionate people can get about a series of books check out the archives at this list http://www.hmssurprise.org/

    All Time Non Fiction:

    The Old Patagonia Express and most any of Paul Thoreau's travel memoirs-- Its a crying shame this writer didn't get to the AT before Bryson.

    All Time Outdoors/Nature Guidebook:

    Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendez-- The only book of its type you can really enjoy on the couch before heading back into the woods.

    All Time AT Book:

    The Thru Hiker Papers. Well, not exactly a book, but they are more expansive than Warren Doyle's tome. They are at this link, and one of the few things that might be considered required reading (IMHO)prior to a thru hike. http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/THP_top.html
    Do you mean Paul Theroux... The dude who is suppose to be the greatest travel writer? I've never read anything by him but I want to.
    Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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    I like a many computers and historical book thus my favourite book list are as under.
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    Default Another good read

    Wow,
    I thought I was the only guy reading Kenneth Roberts & Paul Theroux!!
    Another good novelist: Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee mystery series.

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    I just finished a book called Color the Green Movement Blue. It's an environmental book but it has a lot of discussion and stories about the author's outdoor experiences.

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    1. Walden -Thoreau (Absolute favorite)
    2. A Walk in the Woods -Bryson
    3. Into the Wild -Krakauer
    4. A Sand County Almanac -Leopold
    "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir

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    Fans of "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer Need to read "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions On Everest" by Anatoli Boukreev.

    It is the Russian guide's perspective. Krakauer really reems him in his book and Anatoli responded with a book of his own. Boukreev's book is FAR superiour and tells the story in a much more compelling way. Boukreev is the guide from Scott Fischer's expidition who went and saved everyone who could be saved on that day. All 6 of the clients on Fischer's team survived.

    A week after the Everest summit Boukreev set a solo ascent record on Lhotse.

    Krakauer was a client and a twit and almost needed saved himself.
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    I know it was already mentioned but "Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey

    Another one i just finished reading is called "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm about the park ranger Randy Morgenson and the search and rescue attempt for him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crazystick View Post

    Another one i just finished reading is called "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm about the park ranger Randy Morgenson and the search and rescue attempt for him.
    Thats a good one. It was actually recommended to me by a backcountry ranger in Yosemite.

    Quote Originally Posted by Awol1970 View Post
    Fans of "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer Need to read "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions On Everest" by Anatoli Boukreev.
    Isn't Boukreeve known in the climbing community as a big fat liar?
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    wow I've never heard that. Ed Viesturs calls him the quintesintial climber. That's pretty high accolades.

    The fact is Boukreev was a heroic world class climber who saved multiple lives while putting himnself in danger. Arguably the best high altitude speed climber there ever was.

    Krakaurer is a journalist who questioned the judgements of a pro.
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    +1 for "A Sand County Almanac"

    Dick Proennekke's "One Man's Wilderness"

    "Skyland" by George Freeman Pollock. Great, hard-to-find autobiography about the guy who started a mountaintop resort in the late 1880s at Stony Man Mtn. G.F. Pollock paved the way for the establishment of Shennandoah NP and his memoirs paint a vivid picture of the mountain folk who inhabited the park before the park was established.
    I recommend this book to anyone

    thats all I have for right now. great thread guys!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Awol1970 View Post
    wow I've never heard that.
    You've never heard about the debate between which book is more accurate? How Boukreev abandoned his clients and never admitted to doing anything wrong?
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    Well of course. I've read both plus Lemme Gammelgard's book "Climbing High". Boukreev descended to Camp 4 after summiting. This was part of the plan in case rescues would have to be made. In fact rescues did have to be made and Boukreev made them. All his clients survived.

    Boukreev was awarded The American Alpine Club's David A. Sowles Memorial Award. Which is a fancy way of saying he recieved a VERY high honor for his heroism.

    Krakauer was in his tent sleeping while all this was going on. whose book do you think was more accurate?
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    The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck

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    100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    Gringos by Charles Portis (I just read that so it's in my top 5 for awhile).
    Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
    Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

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    So, I'm about to finish "Into Thin Air", is there something I should be considering as I finish the book, like maybe it wasn't as accurate as I had assumed? I knew there were a lot of debates and different stories after the expedition but I mean what is the truth, who really fudged up and what could have been done to prevent it?
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    ^ also is "A Walk in the Woods" worth reading, I've heard some criticism.
    ...God's Country, and Scotch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TallShark View Post
    So, I'm about to finish "Into Thin Air", is there something I should be considering as I finish the book, like maybe it wasn't as accurate as I had assumed? I knew there were a lot of debates and different stories after the expedition but I mean what is the truth, who really fudged up and what could have been done to prevent it?
    Read Bourkreev's book. Then decide fo yourself. IMHO it is the individual climbers' fault coupled with the storm. Kraukauer takes the attitde that it was the paid guides responsibilty to babysit the clients down off the mountain. After a month plus in base camp I can't help but think the fact THAT YOUR ASS IS ON YOUR OWN above 8000M wouldn't have been driven into everyone there. All the climbers had watches. All the climbers had been told what their turn around time was. All who died climbed past the turn around time.

    Boulreev was a climbing animal. No one else, including the Sherpas, could have done what he did. I'll repeat, read the book...

    P.S. Boukreev went directly to Lhotse and set the solo ascent record one week following the tragedy.
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