A Few New Wilderness Books

heefageLA

heefageLA

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Hello folks.

Im looking to pick up a few (3-4) new wilderness books and would like to know yalls input.

Whats your favorite outdoors/wilderness book?
What time period did the book take place?
What region did the book take place in?
Fiction or non-Fiction?

Thanks for the input! Im looking forward to reading the response.
 
If you don't enjoy this recomendation, I will eat it!

1947: Cache Lake Country: Life in the Woods by John J. Rowlands
Published: New York, 1947

John J. Rowlands has entitled his introductory chapter “Portage to Contentment.” And that, no doubt, is what he wanted his readers to experience when they curled up with this memoir. Set deep in the woods of Ontario, with a narrative structure that moves from month to month, the author takes us through a calendar year spent on Cache Lake.
non-fiction
late 1940's
Ontario,Canada
second choice is :


Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John McPhee about Alaska and McPhee's travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who each interpret the state in different ways.

One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country."

Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is McPhee's best selling book.[1]
After the publication of Coming into the Country, The New York Times called McPhee "the most versatile journalist in America."
When finish those 2 off , I'll point you towards some more! Good Reading!
 
I'll look through my bookcase and see what else would be good. I've collected outdoor books for the last 20 years, probably have about 40 of them.
 
One of my all time favorites - THE ONE EYED POACHER IN THE MAINE WOODS, by Edmund Ware Smith - published in 1955. A funny and well written story about "the epic struggle between game wardens and poachers in the Maine woods, and the stories that go along with that battle"... Did I say funny?

Here is a synopsis http://www.outdoorsportinglibrary.com/the-one-eyed-poacher-and-the-maine-woods/

Don't know if you can even find a copy but if you do buy two and I'll take one off your hands.

Not exactly a woods "wilderness" book but a great adventure in the outdoors is - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. The story of Shackleton and Crew surviving at the South Pole is a must read. Oh my what an epic tale of survival and leadership.

There are so many, I'll need to think before I recommend others but I don't hesitate for these 2 very different tales.
 
Well, I do have a 10 year old boy who im trying to push outdoors.
Right now, all hes interested in is video games and TV shows.
I don't blame him for it, when I was that age I thought going outside to do stuff was a form of punishment, but now, im just the opposite.
Ill pick that book up for my boy for his birthday. Its next month.
That book would be a great addition to the awesome knife John made for him.
 
For a 10 year old boy - a perfect wilderness book is about 12 year old Don Fendler getting separated from his boy scout troop while hiking 5,628 feet - Mt. Katahdin in Maine during the summer of 1939, surviving and ultimately finding his way out of the woods after nearly 2 weeks.
Great read - Lost on a Mountain In Maine.

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Mountain-Maine-Donn-Fendler/dp/068811573X

Now a movie too. Actually this is a book for all ages.
 
Thanks again every one!

Ive got the list made. Heres what ill have coming.

My Side of The Mountain Trilogy
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Ill be ordering these recommendations come Friday.

I know two of these may be considered Kids Books, but it will be a great opportunity for me and the boy to read them together. :D
 
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I think for a young boy Hatchet by Gary Paulson is a great book. It has a little bit of outdoorsy survival info but the main message is never give up in a survival situation.
 
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage I second that nomination also, but I never met a polar exporation book I didn't enjoy!
 
heefageLA said:
Thanks again every one!

Ive got the list made. Heres what ill have coming.

My Side of The Mountain Trilogy
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Ill be ordering these recommendations come Friday.

I know two of these may be considered Kids Books, but it will be a great opportunity for me and the boy to read them together. :D
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I was told tonight by a college classmate that my professor on my thesis mother wrote those. His last name is George, Luke.
 
Well there is always 'Lord of the Flies' or this is one I liked as a kid and adult.

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I know there is a bit of controversy concerning fact/fiction about some things Ton Brown has written but I greatly enjoyed his Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking. His approach to becoming part of your surroundings is almost spiritual. I don't put a lot of faith in self-help type books but it did open my eyes to being outdoors and has helped enrich the time I spend there.
 
It's not a book but the Big Two-Hearted River by Hemingway is in my opinion the greatest short story ever written.
 
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose.

An excellent account of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
 
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