10 best-selling nature books like The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson

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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…

If you liked the nature plot in The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand by Anna McNuff

1. The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

By: Anna McNuff

3.69

Format: 216 pages,

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Similar categories in Anna McNuff's The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction

2. The Penguin Lessons

By: Tom Michell

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name,… read more

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3. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood

5. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

6. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

7. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

By: Mark Boyle

3.94

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more

Similar categories in Mark Boyle's The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated by Kate Humble

8. A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated

By: Kate Humble

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining hap… read more

Similar categories in Kate Humble's A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Where Skylarks Sing: An inspiring story of endurance and the healing power of walking by Patrick  Davies

9. Where Skylarks Sing: An inspiring story of endurance and the healing power of walking

By: Patrick Davies

4.46

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

One man's remarkable journey on foot across Britain.Reaching a major crossroads in 2021, Patrick Da… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Davies's Where Skylarks Sing: An inspiring story of endurance and the healing power of walking book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks

10. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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11. brother. do. you. love. me.

By: Manni Coe

4.39

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more

Similar categories in Manni Coe's brother. do. you. love. me. book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken          Smith

12. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies

13. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

By: Catrina Davies

4.23

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more

Similar categories in Catrina Davies's Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed book and Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

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14. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline by Christian Lewis

15. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
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16. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • travel
  • nonfiction
"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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17. The Crow Tree

By: Ben Cheetham

3.63

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep in the forest is a cottage. A wicked witch once lived there, or so they say.Now a new family i… read more

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

18. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

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

19. 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 Jen Benson's The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Tasting Menu: A Short Story by Stuart MacBride

20. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story

By: Stuart MacBride

3.58

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more

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Cover of Meeting Mae: From Strangers to Soulmates, One Unforgettable Journey by Karen   O'Connor

21. Meeting Mae: From Strangers to Soulmates, One Unforgettable Journey

By: Karen O'Connor

4.37

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

From Near Collision to Deep Meeting Mae is a Story of Unexpected Bonds!Susan Quinn is distracted a… read more

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17 must-read nonfiction books like The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson

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Anna McNuff

3.69

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Raynor Winn

4.33

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Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

Christian Lewis

4.40

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Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Suzanne Heywood

4.27

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

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Simon Armitage

4.09

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Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Henry B. Kane , John J. Rowlands

3.53

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4.33

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