12 Best biography books like Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr…

If you liked the biography plot in Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn

1. Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Carrot Quinn

4.10

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and sh… read more

Similar categories in Carrot Quinn's Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

"I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cover of Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken Ilgunas

2. Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland

By: Ken Ilgunas

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

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Similar categories in Ken Ilgunas's Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail by Erin     Miller

3. Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Erin Miller

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Teetering awkwardly on the brink of insanity, unable to handle life in snowy, cold, ultra-conservat… read more

Similar categories in Erin Miller's Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts

4. Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

By: Suzanne Roberts

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished c… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

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

5. Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

By: Jennifer Pharr Davis

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn… read more

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6. Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail

By: Paul V. Stutzman

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his… read more

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7. 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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8. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By: David Miller

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A 41-year-old engineer quits his job to hike the Appalachian Trail. This is a true account of his h… read more

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9. Pacific Crest Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Zach Davis , None

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

Thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is 90% mental. Each year, thousands of backpackerstake to the P… 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

10. 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 Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • 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 Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anish Anderson

11. Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail i… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
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 Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • 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 How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail by Nicole  Antoinette

13. How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail

By: Nicole Antoinette

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nicole … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Antoinette's How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

14. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Cover of The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson

15. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The High Sierra: A Love Story book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey by Derick Lugo

16. The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey

By: Derick Lugo

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He didn't even know if he liked being outside all that much. He … read more

Similar categories in Derick Lugo's The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

17. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more

Similar categories in Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • wilderness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Michael   Tyler

18. Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Michael Tyler

3.90

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life… read more

Similar categories in Michael Tyler's Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
Cover of Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

19. Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

By: Gail Francis

3.86

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

Just before her 40th birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of … read more

Similar categories in Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • wilderness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail by David  Smart

20. The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

By: David Smart

4.32

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

If your life led to a dead-end, in which direction would you walk? Disillusioned by the run-in-… read more

Similar categories in David Smart's The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of The Last Englishman by Keith Foskett

21. The Last Englishman

By: Keith Foskett

4.23

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for ASIN B007EDIAY4 For previous cover edition see here A real-life … read more

Similar categories in Keith Foskett's The Last Englishman book and Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I have a recurring dream in which I am 85 years old, sitting in my living room, swaying back and forth in a rocking chair, studying the newspaper. I pause, look up and think of all the adventures I c…"

-Keith Foskett, The Last Englishman

13 Top outdoors books like Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail

Erin Miller

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Suzanne Roberts

3.54

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

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

Ben Montgomery

4.42

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

North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

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