6 best-selling biography books like A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund

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A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

By: Torbjørn Ekelund

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times…

If you liked the biography plot in A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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

1. 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 Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"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

Cover of Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat

2. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

By: Farley Mowat

4.21

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Cover of The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers by Arno Ilgner, Jeff Achey

3. The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers

By: Arno Ilgner , Jeff Achey

3.97

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Arno Ilgner's The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers book and Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • philosophy
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction

4. Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

By: Sarah Turnbull

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in… read more

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5. Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance

By: Dagny Scott Barrios

3.68

Format: 528 pages,

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6. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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7. Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

By: Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's al… read more

Similar categories in Julie Schwartz Gottman's Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection book and Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day by Linda Åkeson McGurk

8. The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day

By: Linda Åkeson McGurk

3.90

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with na… read more

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  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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9. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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10. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

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  • nature
Cover of Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes by Nick Hunt

11. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

12. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more

Similar categories in Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit book and Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell

13. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts

14. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By: Adam Shoalts

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah Jenkins

15. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.03

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

Cover of To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan

16. To Night Owl from Dogfish

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in N… read more

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"Here's what we have seen: The way one story ends but then starts up again. The way families are made from people who want to be together more than they want to be apart. The way no one can tell you w…"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish

Cover of Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature by M. Amos Clifford

17. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

By: M. Amos Clifford

3.65

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben

18. Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith

19. 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 Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund

20. A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

By: Torbjørn Ekelund

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times… read more

Similar categories in Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature book and Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • biography
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of How to Smile (Mindfulness Essentials Book 10) by Thich Nhat Hanh

21. How to Smile (Mindfulness Essentials Book 10)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.14

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest book in the bestselling How To simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat … read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's How to Smile (Mindfulness Essentials Book 10) book and Torbjørn Ekelund's A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

  • nonfiction

15 best-selling nonfiction books like A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Farley Mowat

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers

Arno Ilgner , Jeff Achey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

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23 Best nonfiction books like How to Smile (Mindfulness Essentials Book 10) by Thich Nhat Hanh

Transform Your Habits

The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from the Book of the Golden Precepts

None , Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

4.10

Transform Your Habits

How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life (Little Book. Big Idea.)

June Eding , Debbie Ellis

3.16

Transform Your Habits

Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

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