18 must-read nonfiction books like The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox

Cover of The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox

The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

By: Kim Heacox

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.”So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heaco…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2) by Nevada Barr

1. A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)

By: Nevada Barr

3.92

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose ch… read more

Similar categories in Nevada Barr's A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2) book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • adventure
Cover of The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

2. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nature
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
Cover of Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia

3. Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

By: Tom Kizzia

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Into the Wildmeets Helter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in… read more

Similar categories in Tom Kizzia's Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Travels in Alaska by John Muir

4. Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

4.00

Format: None pages,

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of… read more

Similar categories in John Muir's Travels in Alaska book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

5. Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more

Similar categories in William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy   Hall

6. Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

By: Andy Hall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Denali's Howlis the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.… read more

Similar categories in Andy Hall's Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure

7. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest

By: M. Wylie Blanchet

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-… read more

Similar categories in M. Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature

8. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

Similar categories in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

9. 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

Similar categories in David Roberts's Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

10. The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir

By: Ernestine Hayes

2.96

Format: None pages, ebook

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Ju… read more

Similar categories in Ernestine Hayes's The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

11. The Last Season

By: Eric Blehm

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more

Similar categories in Eric Blehm's The Last Season book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

12. Braving it: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild

By: James Campbell

0.00

Format: 126 pages,

The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches… read more

Similar categories in James Campbell's Braving it: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

13. Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska

By: Hank Lentfer

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Faith of Cranes weaves together three parallel narratives: the plight and beauty of sandhill cranes… read more

Similar categories in Hank Lentfer's Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

14. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Alexandra Fuller returns to… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

15. Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River

By: None , None

3.96

Format: 433 pages,

In his dramatic autobiography, Alaskan elder Sidney Huntington, half-white, half-Athabascan, recoun… read more

Similar categories in None's Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

16. Coming into the Country

By: John McPhee

4.80

Format: 360 pages,

This is the story of Alaska and the Alaskans. Written with a vividness and clarity which shifts sce… read more

Similar categories in John McPhee's Coming into the Country book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

17. Ordinary Wolves

By: Seth Kantner

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic cliches … read more

Similar categories in Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

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

18. 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 Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • 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

Cover of Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

19. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

By: Mark Adams

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journ… read more

Similar categories in Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

20. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nature
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

21. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Renner's Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

22. 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 Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik

23. Into the Jungle

By: Erica Ferencik

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this “ hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from t… read more

Similar categories in Erica Ferencik's Into the Jungle book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • audiobook
  • adventure
Cover of Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map by Rick Ridgeway

24. Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map

By: Rick Ridgeway

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Liv… read more

Similar categories in Rick Ridgeway's Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Swan of Paris by Karen Robards

25. The Black Swan of Paris

By: Karen Robards

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944 Celebrated sin… read more

Similar categories in Karen Robards's The Black Swan of Paris book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • audiobook
Cover of The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert

26. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Van Hemert's The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Cover of The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence

27. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

Similar categories in Ben Rawlence's The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman

28. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

By: Sara Dykman

3.85

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first … read more

Similar categories in Sara Dykman's Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"If all of us committed to one footprint of land...the world would be a better place."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"We call government support to farmers "subsidies." Support for poor people is instead referred to as "welfare."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"Monarch Watch estimates that each day, 6,000 acres of Monarch breeding habitat in the United States are converted to something else."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"When I was young, I would ride my bike until I was lost...the realization that I could get where I was going on my own, under my own power, unclocked a bigger world for me."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

29. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Taylor's Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
Cover of The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox

30. The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

By: Kim Heacox

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.”So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heaco… read more

Similar categories in Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

31. Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

By: Jeff Garmire

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

A man walked into the woods, destined to spend 8 months living in the wild. Exhausted and emotional… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance book and Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook

16 best-selling audiobook books like The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox

Transform Your Habits

A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)

Nevada Barr

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Tom Kizzia

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Mark Adams

3.92

View all the books

21 must-read audiobook books like Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.