16 Best nonfiction books like The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith

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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 …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography by Ranulph Fiennes

1. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography

By: Ranulph Fiennes

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process… read more

Similar categories in Ranulph Fiennes's Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

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

2. 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 Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

3. Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)

By: Gavin Maxwell

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1) book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

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4. 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

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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5. Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

By: Nick Hunt

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be ther… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hunt's Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

6. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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7. Weak Teeth

By: Lynsey May

3.28

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her … read more

Similar categories in Lynsey May's Weak Teeth book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline by Christian Lewis

9. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline

By: Christian Lewis

4.41

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. A Walk from the Wild Edge

By: Jake Tyler

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his l… read more

Similar categories in Jake Tyler's A Walk from the Wild Edge book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I pointed to a main road that, unbeknownst to us, had been running parallel to the valley the entire time. We were now at a place called ‘Whiteway’s Lodge’, next to a big roundabout that connects the…"

-Jake Tyler, A Walk from the Wild Edge

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11. The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off … read more

Similar categories in Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Ghost Cat

By: Alex Howard

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat thr… read more

Similar categories in Alex Howard's The Ghost Cat book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

Cover of Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another by Nancy   Campbell

13. Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another

By: Nancy Campbell

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Campbell's Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place by Jade Angeles Fitton

14. Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place

By: Jade Angeles Fitton

4.11

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

' I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experience… read more

Similar categories in Jade Angeles Fitton's Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson

15. The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

By: Jen Benson

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year… read more

Similar categories in Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure by Siobhan Daniels

16. Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure

By: Siobhan Daniels

3.72

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG to start living lif… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Daniels's Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

17. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

Similar categories in Margalit Fox's The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • audiobook
Cover of FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II (Nicholas Best World War II History) by Nicholas Best

19. FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II (Nicholas Best World War II History)

By: Nicholas Best

4.47

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

A GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II FROM THE FAMOUS FACES WHO WITNESSED IT.‘Rivetin… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Best's FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II (Nicholas Best World War II History) book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

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20. Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

By: John Allen

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For over 30 years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team & for most … read more

Similar categories in John Allen's Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • biography
  • nature
Cover of Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead

21. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

By: Tim Birkhead

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more

Similar categories in Tim Birkhead's Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook

11 Top audiobook books like The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Weak Teeth

Lynsey May

3.28

Transform Your Habits

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

Ken Smith

4.23

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18 Top audiobook books like The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

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

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Steven Johnson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

4.02

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