15 Top adventure books like Bewildered by Laura Waters

Cover of Bewildered by Laura  Waters

Bewildered

By: Laura Waters

4.31

Format: None pages, None

WINNER OF 2021 ASTW BEST TRAVEL BOOK (Australian Society of Travel Writers) What would move you …

If you liked the adventure plot in Bewildered by Laura Waters , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family by Robert Long

1. A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family

By: Robert Long

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in co… read more

Similar categories in Robert Long's A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn

2. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"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 Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand by Miriam Lancewood

3. Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

By: Miriam Lancewood

4.13

Format: None pages,

It tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Lancewood's Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature

4. Mile 445

By: None

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Not many people can say they met and married their spouse within thirty days of beginning to hike t… read more

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5. 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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6. Life and Limb

By: None

3.75

Format: 352 pages, paperback

'Like Joe Simpson, Andrew has discovered a latent talent for writing that only a mountaineering epi… read more

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7. A Widow's Walk Off-Grid to Self-Reliance: An Inspiring, True Story of Courage and Determination

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages,

read more

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8. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)

By: Robyn Davidson

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Davidson's Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures) book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

Cover of Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

9. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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Cover of Landlines by Raynor Winn

10. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

Cover of Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis

11. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
Cover of Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

12. Peace Of Wild Things

By: Wendell Berry

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come int… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Peace Of Wild Things book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Wild At Heart by Miriam Lancewood

13. Wild At Heart

By: Miriam Lancewood

4.22

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in t… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Lancewood's Wild At Heart book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival by Sophie Elmhirst

14. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival

By: Sophie Elmhirst

4.12

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Elmhirst's Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Things I Learned from Falling by Claire  Nelson

15. Things I Learned from Falling

By: Claire Nelson

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In 2018, writer Claire Nelson made international headlines when she fell over 25 feet after wanderi… read more

Similar categories in Claire Nelson's Things I Learned from Falling book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail by Nicole  Antoinette

16. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail by Lise Kristine Viken

17. 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Lise Kristine Viken

4.08

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Pacific Crest Trail will change your life... Lise Kristine Viken was an overweight nicotine sl… read more

Similar categories in Lise Kristine Viken's 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

Cover of What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail by Nicole  Antoinette

18. What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail

By: Nicole Antoinette

4.31

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you don't want the same things that everyone around you seems to want? How lonely… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Antoinette's What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long

19. The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond

By: Chris Long

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

**The number-one bestseller** The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Chris Long's The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

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

20. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking by Keith Foskett

21. Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking

By: Keith Foskett

4.20

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here and here One man’s remarkab… read more

Similar categories in Keith Foskett's Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
Cover of One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick  Morton

22. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

Similar categories in Rick Morton's One Hundred Years of Dirt book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Bewildered by Laura  Waters

23. Bewildered

By: Laura Waters

4.31

Format: None pages, None

WINNER OF 2021 ASTW BEST TRAVEL BOOK (Australian Society of Travel Writers) What would move you … read more

Similar categories in Laura Waters's Bewildered book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
Cover of A Walk from the Wild Edge by Jake Tyler

24. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

Cover of Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors by Gail Muller

25. Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

By: Gail Muller

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike… read more

Similar categories in Gail Muller's Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
Cover of Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond by Paul Kilgour

26. Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond

By: Paul Kilgour

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten b… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kilgour's Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail by Anthony Sharwood

27. From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail

By: Anthony Sharwood

4.00

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist a… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Sharwood's From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

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

28. 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 Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of On Sacred Ground: A 7,000-Mile Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature (A 7,000 Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature Book 2) by Andrew Terrill

29. On Sacred Ground: A 7,000-Mile Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature (A 7,000 Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature Book 2)

By: Andrew Terrill

4.71

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

Part Two of the inspiring true story of an extraordinary 7,000-mile wilderness walk.Not everyone wo… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Terrill's On Sacred Ground: A 7,000-Mile Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature (A 7,000 Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature Book 2) book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • travel
Cover of Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled by Lisa    Jansen

30. Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled

By: Lisa Jansen

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and yo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jansen's Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Unlikeliest Backpacker: From Office Desk to Wilderness by Kathryn Barnes

31. The Unlikeliest Backpacker: From Office Desk to Wilderness

By: Kathryn Barnes

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

You reach a certain age. You have a lifestyle many would envy. Still, something doesn't feel right.… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Barnes's The Unlikeliest Backpacker: From Office Desk to Wilderness book and Laura Waters's Bewildered

  • travel

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A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family

Robert Long

3.60

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

Carrot Quinn

4.10

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Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

Miriam Lancewood

4.13

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Raynor Winn

4.33

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Simon Armitage

3.73

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Anya Niewierra

4.00

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David Nicholls

4.08

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