21 Best memoir books like This Much Country by Kristin Knight Pace

Cover of This Much Country by Kristin Knight Pace

This Much Country

By: Kristin Knight Pace

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs fro…

"Later in life I would realize that all of the most badass things I had ever done required an early start, no decipherable sleep, and the jolt of adrenaline that came with knowing I was about to do something big."

-Kristin Knight Pace, This Much Country

"Later in life I would realize that all of the most badass things I had ever done required an early start, no decipherable sleep, and the jolt of adrenaline that came with knowing I was about to do something big."

-Kristin Knight Pace, This Much Country

If you liked the memoir plot in This Much Country by Kristin Knight Pace , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow

1. Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail

By: Debbie Clarke Moderow

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir of one woman’s attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huski… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Clarke Moderow's Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"By February 15 we will spread the empty sacks in the driveway in a big circle. In the middle we’ll pile provisions for the trail. I know from experience that the quantity of dog supplies will be shoc…"

-Debbie Clarke Moderow, Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail

Cover of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

2. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

By: Blair Braverman

3.80

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norw… read more

Similar categories in Blair Braverman's Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home by Leigh  Newman

3. Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

By: Leigh Newman

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Newman's Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm

4. Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

By: Pete Fromm

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award,Indian Creek Chroniclesis Pete F… read more

Similar categories in Pete Fromm's Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen

5. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

By: Gary Paulsen

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness… read more

Similar categories in Gary Paulsen's Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
Cover of Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living by Tim Bauerschmidt, Ramie Liddle

6. Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living

By: Tim Bauerschmidt , Ramie Liddle

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Bauerschmidt's Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Alaska by James A. Michener

7. Alaska

By: James A. Michener

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Al… read more

Similar categories in James A. Michener's Alaska book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • travel
  • adventure
Cover of Temperance Creek: A Memoir by Teresa Jordan, Pamela Royes

8. Temperance Creek: A Memoir

By: Teresa Jordan , Pamela Royes

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of… read more

Similar categories in Teresa Jordan's Temperance Creek: A Memoir book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds by Pete Fromm

9. The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds

By: Pete Fromm

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Indian Creek Chronicles and winner of 5 PNBA Awards, Fromm's memoir is his explo… read more

Similar categories in Pete Fromm's The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature

10. Woodsong

By: Gary Paulsen

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adve… read more

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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

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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 Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

13. The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

By: Gay Salisbury , Laney Salisbury

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that w… read more

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14. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and … read more

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15. Star in the Storm

By: Joan Hiatt Harlow

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

A RISKY SECRET! All non-sheepherding dogs have been outlawed from the rocky coastal village where M… 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

16. 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 Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"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 The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

17. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

Similar categories in Ricardo Nuila's The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story by Lee   Morgan

18. Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story

By: Lee Morgan

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An intimate account―the first from a trail veterinarian―of the canines who brave the challenges of … read more

Similar categories in Lee Morgan's Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them by J.L. Collins

19. Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them

By: J.L. Collins

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From “The Godfather of Financial Independence (FI)”, a follow-up to his international bestselling p… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Collins's Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • nonfiction
Cover of Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

20. 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

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"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

21. 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 Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"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 Above the Fire by Michael   O'Donnell

22. Above the Fire

By: Michael O'Donnell

3.98

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

O'Donnell's debut, Above the Fire, is a novel which finds hope and resilience in the timelessness o… read more

Similar categories in Michael O'Donnell's Above the Fire book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • adventure
Cover of Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht

23. Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

By: Robert Specht

4.32

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this … read more

Similar categories in Robert Specht's Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It was like traveling through a stage setting, the air clear and tingling, the moonlight sparkling off bushes laced with frost."

-Robert Specht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

Cover of Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia

24. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

By: Brianna Madia

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

25. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

By: Pam Houston

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m… read more

Similar categories in Pam Houston's Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Cover of Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War by Eva Dillon

26. Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

By: Eva Dillon

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence of… read more

Similar categories in Eva Dillon's Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of This Much Country by Kristin Knight Pace

27. This Much Country

By: Kristin Knight Pace

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs fro… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"Later in life I would realize that all of the most badass things I had ever done required an early start, no decipherable sleep, and the jolt of adrenaline that came with knowing I was about to do so…"

-Kristin Knight Pace, This Much Country

Cover of On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier by Thomas J. Sims

28. On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier

By: Thomas J. Sims

4.28

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting… read more

Similar categories in Thomas J. Sims's On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France by Steve   Hoffman

29. A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

By: Steve Hoffman

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An American food writer moves his family of unlikely expats to the French countryside, where the lo… read more

Similar categories in Steve Hoffman's A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Alone at the Top: Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter by Lonnie Dupre

30. Alone at the Top: Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter

By: Lonnie Dupre

3.93

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What goes through your mind when you’re dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold a… read more

Similar categories in Lonnie Dupre's Alone at the Top: Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure
Cover of The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors by Banning Lyon

31. The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors

By: Banning Lyon

4.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incredible memoir about one man’s journey to heal from trauma through chosen family, friendship,… read more

Similar categories in Banning Lyon's The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors book and Kristin Knight Pace's This Much Country

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

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Transform Your Habits

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Blair Braverman

3.80

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Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

Leigh Newman

3.68

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Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

Pete Fromm

4.16

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4.40

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Temperance Creek: A Memoir

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4.12

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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3.76

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