17 best-selling nature books like Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild by Brad Orsted

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Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

By: Brad Orsted

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search fo…

If you liked the nature plot in Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild by Brad Orsted , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness

By: Sheila Hamilton

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"A boldly beautiful page-turner about loving and losing someone with mental illness. I'll be recomm… read more

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2. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

By: Aspen Matis

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada… read more

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3. Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World

By: Alison Weir

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Many are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated … read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

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4. Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction

By: Elizabeth Vargas

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved former ABC  20/20  anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Vargas's Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

6. 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 Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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7. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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8. The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more

Similar categories in Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

Cover of North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek

9. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

Similar categories in Scott Jurek's North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Cover of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

10. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • nature
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11. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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12. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

By: Michael Wejchert

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wejchert's Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • biography
  • nature
Cover of Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

13. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

Similar categories in Will Cockrell's Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map by Rick Ridgeway

14. Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map

By: Rick Ridgeway

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Liv… read more

Similar categories in Rick Ridgeway's Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg  Marshall

15. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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16. Such Kindness

By: Andre Dubus III

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more

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  • adult
Cover of Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself by Luke Russert

17. Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

By: Luke Russert

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Look for Me There , Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his jou… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We work our way back through the crowd. A few steps behind, holding Dad’s hand, I keep my eyes affixed to the back of his white polo shirt. The outline of his wallet is visible through his back pants…"

-Luke Russert, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

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18. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

By: Carl Safina

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more

Similar categories in Carl Safina's Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"

-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

19. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

Cover of King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel de Visé

20. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

By: Daniel de Visé

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

"No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spre… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

21. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

Similar categories in Ramin Setoodeh's Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

22. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

23. Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

By: Jessica Willis Fisher

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne

24. Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

By: Ty Gagne

4.41

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the… read more

Similar categories in Ty Gagne's Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • biography
  • nature
Cover of Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker by Glen Van Peski

25. Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

By: Glen Van Peski

4.47

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the… read more

Similar categories in Glen Van Peski's Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"The philosophy that guided my ultralight backpacking innovations—“take less, do more"

-Glen Van Peski, Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

"When we know exactly what we need and how to provide it for ourselves, then we also come to recognize what is not essential."

-Glen Van Peski, Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

"In the wilderness, as in life, to get to where you want to go, you first have to know where you are, and in life at least, who you are."

-Glen Van Peski, Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

"Trail magic, the amazing things that happen when you’re out and about, when you open yourself to new experiences, when you pay attention."

-Glen Van Peski, Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

Cover of No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny Purmort

26. No Happy Endings

By: Nora McInerny Purmort

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's No Happy Endings book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06 by Rick McIntyre

27. The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06

By: Rick McIntyre

4.52

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Following five generations of female wolves - including the famous Oh-Six - this gripping family sa… read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06 book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • nature
Cover of Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite by Dean King

28. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite

By: Dean King

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets … read more

Similar categories in Dean King's Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild by Brad Orsted

29. Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

By: Brad Orsted

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search fo… read more

Similar categories in Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz

30. Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)

By: Bethany Joy Lenz

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Joy Lenz's Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!) book and Brad Orsted's Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Melania by Melania Trump

31. Melania

By: Melania Trump

4.03

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerMelania is a compelling an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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