17 must-read audiobook books like The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles

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The Backyard Adventurer

By: Beau Miles

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

After years of adventuring around the globe – running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring – Beau Mile…

"Backyard adventuring is about concocting meaningful events and experiments that challenge me, that redefine my childhood sense of the hero’s journey, that force me to look intimately in everyday places, and question how I live among others."

-Beau Miles, The Backyard Adventurer

"Backyard adventuring is about concocting meaningful events and experiments that challenge me, that redefine my childhood sense of the hero’s journey, that force me to look intimately in everyday places, and question how I live among others."

-Beau Miles, The Backyard Adventurer

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Simpson's Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga, #1)

By: Stephen Moss

4.07

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they en… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

By: Anna McNuff

3.69

Format: 216 pages,

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Similar categories in Anna McNuff's The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes by Alastair Humphreys

5. Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, o… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Humphreys's Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • travel
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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6. Mud, Sweat and Tears

By: Bear Grylls

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Bear Grylls is a man who has always loved adventure. After leaving school, he spent months hiking i… read more

Similar categories in Bear Grylls's Mud, Sweat and Tears book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Fear the Future (The Fear Saga #3)

By: Stephen Moss

4.38

Format: None pages,

A predator hunts the skies over Earth. Its intent is peaceful, and its mission is essential, but it… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's Fear the Future (The Fear Saga #3) book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • audiobook
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8. Fear the Survivors (The Fear Saga, #2)

By: None

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

The earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet ha… read more

Similar categories in None's Fear the Survivors (The Fear Saga, #2) book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • audiobook

9. Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

3.87

Format: 144 pages, ebook

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walki… read more

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10. The Wild Places

By: Robert Macfarlane

3.73

Format: None pages,

"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more

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11. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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12. American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders

By: Richard Grant

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fiftee… read more

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13. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

By: Matthew B. Crawford

4.00

Format: None pages,

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14. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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15. Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

By: Richard Askwith

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Exploring the world of fell-running--to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one'… read more

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16. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

Similar categories in Scott Jurek's North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

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17. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

By: Adharanand Finn

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more

Similar categories in Adharanand Finn's The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll

18. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

Similar categories in Rich Roll's Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

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19. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

By: Shane Benzie

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Heads up – here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author… read more

Similar categories in Shane Benzie's The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Showing Up

By: Nedd Brockmann

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media by Hugh van Cuylenburg

21. Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed th… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis

22. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys

23. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Humphreys's Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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24. A Simpler Life

By: The School of Life

4.05

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th… read more

Similar categories in The School of Life's A Simpler Life book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles

25. The Backyard Adventurer

By: Beau Miles

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

After years of adventuring around the globe – running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring – Beau Mile… read more

Similar categories in Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Backyard adventuring is about concocting meaningful events and experiments that challenge me, that redefine my childhood sense of the hero’s journey, that force me to look intimately in everyday plac…"

-Beau Miles, The Backyard Adventurer

Cover of Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDougall

26. Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide

By: Christopher McDougall

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Born to Run 's Chris McDougall and long-time running coach Eric Orton show us how to join the globa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Frenchman (The Frenchman #1) by Jack  Beaumont

27. The Frenchman (The Frenchman #1)

By: Jack Beaumont

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operat… read more

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Cover of Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries by Oscar Farinetti

28. Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries

By: Oscar Farinetti

2.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Farinetti's Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
Cover of First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook] by Frankie Gaw

29. First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook]

By: Frankie Gaw

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

ABOUT FIRST GENERATION In this stunning exploration of identity through food, the blogger behind L… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Gaw's First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook] book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild by Bear Grylls

30. Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

By: Bear Grylls

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global a… read more

Similar categories in Bear Grylls's Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I’d prefer to be known for the opposite."

-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

"That’s how we make the world a little better. Partner with the best, look beyond ourselves, and know that, as with everything, what we sow is what we reap."

-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

"Life just says: Keep moving. Always forward. Use the fear as a driver. An emotion to sharpen us. And as for the marks, the scars, the wrinkles… they make us who we are."

-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

"My job was simple: have faith through the storm, be determined in my actions, smart in my decisions, trusting of my instinct, and free from worrying about whether I succeeded or failed."

-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

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31. Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond

By: Paul Kilgour

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten b… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kilgour's Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond book and Beau Miles's The Backyard Adventurer

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure

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