12 Best memoir books like The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts

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The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By: Adam Shoalts

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

By: Farley Mowat

4.21

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more

Similar categories in Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

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2. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By: John Vaillant

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • adventure

3. The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre

By: Kelly Cordes

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Cordes's The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
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4. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

By: John Vaillant

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • history
  • nature

5. Eating Dirt

By: Charlotte Gill

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

6. Lost in the Barrens

By: Farley Mowat

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Ma… read more

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7. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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9. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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10. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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11. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

Similar categories in Rick Mercer's The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

Similar categories in Will Cockrell's Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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13. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

Similar categories in Jann Arden's The Bittlemores book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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14. The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman

By: Kevin Donovan

3.49

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime. Billionai… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Donovan's The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
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15. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Thistle's From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
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16. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

By: Tanya Talaga

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Talaga's All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures) book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."

-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

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17. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

Similar categories in Helen Knott's Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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18. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Wente's Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell

19. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

Similar categories in Brett Popplewell's Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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20. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayden Taylor's Cold book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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21. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By: Adam Shoalts

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nature
  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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22. The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of  The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary n… read more

Similar categories in Eric Blehm's The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full."

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

"It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying."

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

"I'm honestly not that concerned with what's modern, or what's up-to-date, or what's cool, stylish... The smile after a good run, to me, is all I need to know about snowboarding. -Craig Kelly"

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

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23. The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth

By: Adam Goodheart

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated h… read more

Similar categories in Adam Goodheart's The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

By: Mark Bourrie

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known … read more

Similar categories in Mark Bourrie's Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • history
  • canada
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore by Linda S. Godfrey

25. I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore

By: Linda S. Godfrey

3.26

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Which came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encoun… read more

Similar categories in Linda S. Godfrey's I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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26. Operation Angus

By: Terry Fallis

3.85

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Terry Fallis comes the long-awaited follow-up to The Best Laid Plans and Th… read more

Similar categories in Terry Fallis's Operation Angus book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell

27. Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy

By: Jason Bell

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis In public life, Dr. Winth… read more

Similar categories in Jason Bell's Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope by Jordin Tootoo

28. Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope

By: Jordin Tootoo

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way , pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Toot… read more

Similar categories in Jordin Tootoo's Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund

29. A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

By: Torbjørn Ekelund

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times… read more

Similar categories in Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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30. The Long Labrador Trail

By: Dillon Wallace

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

Similar categories in Dillon Wallace's The Long Labrador Trail book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

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31. Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise

By: Charlotte Gray

3.66

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Gray's Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise book and Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook

5 Best adult books like The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Bittlemores

Jann Arden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Cold

Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

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21 best-selling audiobook books like I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore by Linda S. Godfrey

Transform Your Habits

American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide

Steve Lehto

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)

Aaron Mahnke

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters

J.W. Ocker

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Cara Robertson

3.40

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