Recommend a good outdoor book? Stuck in airport for 7 hours.

Relentless Forward Progress

by Bryon Powell

Touching the void.

The hours will fly past.

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I've been a fan of Barry Lopez lately: Arctic Dreams (good stuff, ol Ed Abbey even liked this book), Of Men and Wolves, and I have Crossing Open Ground packed and ready for a trip this week.

Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock is a fun read.

Lots of good sailing books that anyone into UL hiking might also relate to. They range from The Cruising Life (a how to on ditching the 9 to 5 and going sailing) by Trefethren(?) to Adrift by Callahan (a survival story).

The Cormack McCarthy books are good and I think of All the Pretty Horses as an "outdoor book" to some degree.

That oughta hold ya for a few hours even if you got bumped on the flight.

The Lost City of Z by David Grann. Epic tale of the great adventurer Percy Fawcett searching the Amazon jungle for a lost civilization.

Kind of related, "1491." It's about the Western Hemisphere before Columbus. Well written and researched.

Not quite backpacking, but definitely a minimalist ethic is David James Duncan's The River Why. All about the pursuit of an ideal life thru … fishing. But even if you don't fish, it's all about finding that special place in the wilderness.