7 Best biography memoir books like Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest by Trina Moyles

Cover of Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest by Trina Moyles

Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

By: Trina Moyles

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest by Trina Moyles , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by None, None, Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke

1. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more

Similar categories in None's One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Cover of The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

2. 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

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  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature

3. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

By: Aspen Matis

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada… read more

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4. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

By: Philip Connors

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journaland talked his way int… read more

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

5. 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

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • 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 Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

6. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

7. 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

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  • nature
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

8. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Future by Catherine Leroux

9. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

Cover of Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts

10. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

11. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

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

12. 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 Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • 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 Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

13. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip

14. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

By: Leila Philip

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more

Similar categories in Leila Philip's Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway

15. Permanent Astonishment

By: Tomson Highway

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more

Similar categories in Tomson Highway's Permanent Astonishment book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts

16. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest by Trina Moyles

17. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

By: Trina Moyles

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more

Similar categories in Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest book and Trina Moyles's Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken          Smith

18. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Wild Hope: A Novel by Joan     Thomas

19. Wild Hope: A Novel

By: Joan Thomas

3.50

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Governor General’s Award–­winning author of Five Wives, a thrilling contemporary novel abo… read more

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  • nature
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8) by Sherry Thomas

20. A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8)

By: Sherry Thomas

4.19

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner by Marie Wilson

21. North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner

By: Marie Wilson

4.68

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada

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Andrea Lankford

3.76

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Téa Mutonji

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John Vaillant

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Deanna Raybourn

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C.J. Archer

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Jacqueline Winspear

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