Recommended reading?

[Gwilli]

I just received a Kindle Fire from my awesome wife (for just being a great guy, I guess) and I need to start filling it up with books! I'm reaching out to the Whiteblaze community for suggestions. What hiking/outdoor related books are your favorites? Inspires you? Makes you laugh? Makes you think? I'm looking forward to your responses! Thanks In advance.

[Leanthree]

http://www.amazon.com/A.-Digger-Stolz/e/B00BEHD4VU

Fiction but might as well be true. Light and humorous generally. The second book is better than a quite good first. Hat tip to The Trail Show for the recommendation initially.

[DocMahns]

hiking/outdoor have to go with Into the Wild, The Road is kind of like hiking/survival/make you think but deals with a post-apocalyptic world

my personal favorites that will make you think- Brave New World, 1984, Atlas Shrugged (I'm a big fan of Orwellian/Negative Utopian books)

[4eyedbuzzard]

Some of my favorites

Mountaineering
No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (but if you read Into Thin Air, you MUST also read Anatoli Boukreev's "The Climb" as well)
Not Without Peril - Nicholas Howe
AT
Walking With Spring - Earl Shaffer
Appalachian Hiker - Ed Garvey
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail - David Miller
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Hiking
The Complete Walker - Colin Fletcher
Beyond Backpacking - Ray Jardine
Freezer Bag Cooking - Sarah Kirkconnell

[futureatwalker]

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (gripping account of a trip that goes badly)
As far as the eye can see by David Brill (old-school AT; excellent account)

[Sierra2015]

I read Call of the American Wild by Guy Grieve last week and I really enjoyed it.

[lonehiker]

I'm a fantasy buff. Stephen R Donaldson's Thomas Covenant (10 books).

[Lone Wolf]

Ed Abbey.......

[Fairway]

A few of the classics (some will be free)

Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Solcum

[daddytwosticks]

A Walk in the Woods...laughed my azz off.

[Night Train]

hiking/outdoor have to go with Into the Wild, The Road is kind of like hiking/survival/make you think but deals with a post-apocalyptic world

my personal favorites that will make you think- Brave New World, 1984, Atlas Shrugged (I'm a big fan of Orwellian/Negative Utopian books)

+1 Aldous Huxley...his essay "The Doors Of Perception" is a good read, even without taking Mescaline.

[slbirdnerd]

"Three Hundred Zeroes" by Dennis Blanchard:

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Hundred-.../dp/1450557465

And pretty much everything else everyone else says.

[Snowleopard]

Keep an eye open for perrymk's postings on FREE kindle books for hikers. Often these are only free for a day or two then they go back up in price.
For example, here's a search for his postings, most of them free kindle books:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/sear...archid=5228340
A current free book posted by fredmugs, Our Southern Highlanders, by Horace Kephart:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...rn-Highlanders
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Southern-H...rn+highlanders

Amazon shows you related books below the listing for the book you're looking at, and one is:
Camping and Woodcraft, by Horace Kephart for 99 cents! Highly recommended, but you ought to have the paper book.
http://www.amazon.com/woodcraft-hand...d_sim_kstore_1

[Gwilli]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll keep an eye out for the posts about free books. I picked up (downloaded) Our Southern Highlanders. Looking forward to starting that one. I also got a few of the others that were recommended. Thanks again!!!

[daimonpaul]

A Walk in the Woods is probably the only real outdoors book I've read (I can't sit still long enough to read much at a time). But I know of a couple others that are great reads and environmental related:

The End of Country by Seamus McGraw - is about the Marcellus natural gas boom in Pennsylvania and the risks/rewards residents in the shale fields have faced

Coal River by Michael Shnayerson - is about the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on West Virginia residents and the landscape down there

[oldwetherman]

Best humorous read has to be "Just Passin' Thru". It's by Winton Porter the previous owner of Mountain Crossings in Georgia. It's about some of the most colorful folks that passed through there early
in their hikes.

[rocketsocks]

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-..._sim_kstore_16

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Passin-Th..._sim_kstore_28

http://www.amazon.com/AWOL-Appalachi...d_sim_kstore_9

http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Woods-Red...k+in+the+woods



don't buy this, unless you want a real good tear jerk.

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Yeller-Fre...rds=old+yeller

[Murphy7]

Just Passin Thru by Winton Porter
Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis

[Gwilli]

I got choked up just reading the title "Old Yeller". Reminded me of another tear jerker dog story, "Where the Red Fern Grows". Dammit! Need a feel good title, STAT!!! Baseball, Hiking, anything but sad, dog(s) die at the end stories!!!

[Sierra2015]

Read Racing in the Rain.

Man.... What a dog story!