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    R Banks
    BPL Member

    @eddaka

    Locale: everywhere i guess

    Hey guys,

    I have my kindle with me and was wondering if any of you could recommend a good backpacking/outdoor book.

    Please help me kill my boredom.
    -Richard

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    Art …
    BPL Member

    @asandh

    Relentless Forward Progress

    by Bryon Powell

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    Diplomatic Mike
    Member

    @mikefaedundee

    Locale: Under a bush in Scotland

    Touching the void.

    The hours will fly past.

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    rOg w
    BPL Member

    @rog_w

    Locale: rogwilmers.com

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    Brian Camprini
    BPL Member

    @bcamprini

    Locale: Southern Appalachians

    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.

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    Dylan Snodgrass
    Member

    @truenorth

    Locale: San Francisco, CA

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

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    Dale Wambaugh
    BPL Member

    @dwambaugh

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

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

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    Peter Rodrigues
    BPL Member

    @prodrigues

    Locale: New York

    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.

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