18 Best nonfiction books like Highland Hermit - The Remarkable Life of James McRory Smith by James Carron

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Highland Hermit - The Remarkable Life of James McRory Smith

By: James Carron

4.10

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

James McRory Smith lived for over 30 years at Strathchailleach, one of the most remote cottages in …

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Cover of GYPSIES: I married a Romany! Honest, raw and extremely funny! by Nell R. Loveridge

1. GYPSIES: I married a Romany! Honest, raw and extremely funny!

By: Nell R. Loveridge

4.02

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Its funny really. When you think about the kind of guy you are going to marry, a Romany living in a… read more

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2. Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse #1)

By: None , Claire Macdonald , Mary J. MacLeod

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young… read more

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3. The Good Life: Up the Yukon Without a Paddle

By: Dorian Amos

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dorian Amos—a painter from Cornwall—and his wife decided that they were in need of adventure. Havin… read more

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4. 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

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"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

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5. A Croft in the Hills

By: Katharine Stewart

4.12

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A Croft in the Hills captures life on a hill croft 50 years ago. A couple and their young daughter… read more

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"We filled our lungs with the cold, still air and forgot our small needs and worries. We had a sound roof to shelter us, peat and wood for warmth, milk, eggs and potatoes in plenty to keep us fed. Hea…"

-Katharine Stewart, A Croft in the Hills

"In a flash it came to me - might not people who were forced to spend their working hours between walls like to hear about what went on in a hill-top croft, of how it was possible to get an immense am…"

-Katharine Stewart, A Croft in the Hills

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6. Nurse, Come You Here!: More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

By: None

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young chil… read more

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

7. 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

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8. Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place

By: Dan Boothby

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends o… read more

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9. Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

By: Richard Coles

4.25

Format: None pages,

The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter, the Reverend Richard Coles. The Reverend… read more

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10. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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11. Call of the Wild

By: Guy Grieve

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and … read more

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12. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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13. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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14. 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

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"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

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15. 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

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16. I Am an Island

By: Tamsin Calidas

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more

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"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

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17. Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

By: Anne Glenconner

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

**Instant Sunday Times Bestseller** Bracing honesty, rare insight, and more revelations: theNew Yor… read more

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18. 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

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Cover of The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn

19. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

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"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

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20. 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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Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

21. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

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Cover of Highland Hermit - The Remarkable Life of James McRory Smith by James Carron

22. Highland Hermit - The Remarkable Life of James McRory Smith

By: James Carron

4.10

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

James McRory Smith lived for over 30 years at Strathchailleach, one of the most remote cottages in … read more

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Cover of Skeoch - Our new life on a Scottish hill farm by Jennie Phillips

23. Skeoch - Our new life on a Scottish hill farm

By: Jennie Phillips

4.06

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

"An amazing tale of 70's life on a remote Scottish farm" Southall Film Studios“I have to state righ… read more

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Cover of Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay by Anne Cholawo

24. Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay

By: Anne Cholawo

4.28

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 198… read more

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Cover of The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson

25. 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

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Cover of The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's Mountains by John D.  Burns

26. The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's Mountains

By: John D. Burns

4.35

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR TGO BOOK OF THE YEAR This is a book for everyone who truly loves the mountains and … read more

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27. The Kerracher Man (Non-Fiction)

By: Eric MacLeod

4.09

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Biography read more

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28. The Hot Tent Diaries: Autumn: Book 1 in the Hot Tent Diaries: Exploring Scotland in a tent with a woodburning stove.

By: John D. Burns

3.68

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever thought about camping in the Highlands of Scotland in the depths of winter? If you have the wo… read more

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29. The Hot Tent Diaries: Book 3 Spring into Summer

By: John D. Burns

4.08

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

As the snows of winter fade and spring comes to his Highland home, John celebrates the hills of the… read more

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30. The Island

By: Alasdair McPherson

3.96

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

It is not until he is thirteen that a Glasgow boy learns he has relatives on a small island in the … read more

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31. Wild Winter: In search of nature in Scotland's mountain landscape

By: John D. Burns

4.52

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out … read more

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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Simon Armitage

3.73

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4.00

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