Books!!!

[EastCoastClimber]

Does anyone know of any books about the outdoors or long hikes besides:
A Walk in the Woods
Into the Wild
A Walk Across America 1 & 2


Thanks, Jared.

[generoll]

see if you can find a copy of "The Long Walk". That's some serious hiking.

[-SEEKER-]

A HIKE FOR MIKE by Jeff Alt
A WALK FOR SUNSHINE by Jeff Alt
WORLDWALK by Steven Newman
A JOURNEY NORTH by Adrienne Hall
ON THE BEATEN PATH by Robert Alden Rubin

[hopefulhiker]

The Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher is about backpacking solo...

[superman]

The Ordinary Adventure by Jan Leitschuh (LiteShoe)
It's a very good hiking book and the author is a whitblaze regular. It's available here http://www.funfreedom.com/

[Tipi Walter]

THE LONG WALK or THE LONGEST WALK about some guy who rolled a backpack from Alaska to Argentina. Took him 7 years, 19,000 miles.

The two volume Rodale Press books, HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

Any books on mountaineering epics such as INTO THIN AIR, Beck Weather's LEFT FOR DEAD, 148 DEGREES BELOW ZERO about some guys trying to survive a terrible storm on Denali. Any story about K2, the "Death Mountain".

Clint Wills(Willis?)books about epic Everest stories.

SHACKLETON'S voyage is good reading
The KARLUK disaster or the ESSEX mishap.
NOT WITHOUT PERIL, an excellent tome on all the deaths atop Mt Washington.
ORDEAL BY HUNGER: THE DONNER PARTY is danged interesting and fun reading when stuck in a tent during a blizzard.

[Mags]

http://booksforhikers.com/the-trails/appalachian-trail

[warraghiyagey]

The best hiking book I've ever read by far is "Take Me With You" by Brad Newsham. He does not ever tell you how to hike. He tells you what his hike was like. 100 days, starting in the Phillipines, then to Nepal, India, Egypt, Kilamanjaro and down the east coast of Africa ending in S. Africa.
The whole purpous of his trip other than to wee the world, was to meet someone out there that he would pay to bring back to the US San Fran for a month.
The culmination of the book is too powerful to be so relatively unknown. Newsham is one of us. And it is a great read. I'd like to know what you thought of this book.

BTW - I read "Not Without Peril" whileat Madison Hut during a viscious storm. Great place to read that book.
Peace

[7Sisters]

A couple of my favorites:

Walking with Spring
Blind Courage
Walk for Sunshine (I know it was said earlier - but it was that good)
Not Without Peril

[Cannibal]

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller.

Good book for anyone to read; you don't have to be a hiker to 'get it'. This is the book I tell my family to read when they ask about thru-hiking the AT.

[TJ aka Teej]

eArThworm's list: http://booksforhikers.com/the-trails/appalachian-trail

[TJ aka Teej]

http://booksforhikers.com/the-trails/appalachian-trail

Mags beat me to it!!

slowerThanmagaroniJ

[Mags]

Mags beat me to it!!

slowerThanmagaroniJ

But still able to translate my awful handwriting.

[Bare Bear]

Try Model T's books. He has thru hiked a few times and I met him in 06 and found he was a really neat guy as well as a good writer. History plus just a good read in most of them.

[emerald]

Try Model T's books.

Saw your posts in the bear thread today, Bare Bear. Gold bond said I ought to read Model T's books too. Maybe I should.

[TinAbbey]

A Journey on the crest - cindy ross (PCT)
scraping heaven - cindy ross (CDT)
and she's got one on the AT

[Lilred]

I second the suggestion of Model T's books. He has two out now. Walking on the Happy Side of Misery, and The Ghost Whisperers. The first book is about his first thru, the second is more about the history that surrounds the AT. Both are very good. I've had the pleasure of doing a couple of overnighters with Model T and a few others at Big South Fork and he is as entertaining in person as he is in his books. He just finished his third thru last year and raised thousands of dollars for a homeless shelter in his hometown.

I also agree that Blind Courage is a very good read. I read it in a day, a zero at Mountain Harbor hostel. Couldn't put it down.

Another one I really enjoyed was Then the Hail Came.

http://www.skwc.com/exile/Hail-nf.html

It's an online book.

Hmmmm I may have to read that one again. It's been awhile....

[Rain Man]

"The Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz.

Several WWII prisoners of war escape from a Soviet gulag and hike through the snow, across the Gobi Desert, and the Himalays, into India.

Incredible.

This site has a personal (not mine) bibliography of AT and hiking books, with reviews of each--
http://friends.backcountry.net/m_fac...okreviews.html

RainMan

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[gumball]

Weird Hikes, by Art Bernstein Set for hikes in the Western part of the US, made me feel a lot better about all the strange stuff that has happened to us during our hiking trips. Lots of fun to read.

[TJ aka Teej]

But still able to translate my awful handwriting.

It got lots better by the time you were finishing up the PossiPhic C4ress FnaaL. I'll have to transcibe for another hiker someday - I miss the smell of wood smoke and stovetop stuffing in my mailbox