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

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Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 pm #1276176

R Banks
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@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

Jul 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm #1755099

Art …
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@asandh

Relentless Forward Progress

by Bryon Powell

Jul 1, 2011 at 1:09 pm #1755103

Diplomatic Mike
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@mikefaedundee
Locale: Under a bush in Scotland

Touching the void.

The hours will fly past.

Jul 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm #1755190

rOg w
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Jul 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm #1755246

Brian Camprini
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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.

Jul 1, 2011 at 9:54 pm #1755259

Dylan Snodgrass
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@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.

Jul 1, 2011 at 9:58 pm #1755261

Dale Wambaugh
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@dwambaugh
Locale: Pacific Northwest

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

Jul 18, 2011 at 12:04 pm #1760539

Peter Rodrigues
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@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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