14 Best sports books like There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells by Steve Birkinshaw

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There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells

By: Steve Birkinshaw

4.11

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright…

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Cover of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes

2. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

By: Dean Karnazes

4.00

Format: 50 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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3. The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By: Alistair Urquhart

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

By: Bill Bryson

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Words are weapons Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only… read more

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6. Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)

By: Joe Abercrombie

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Thorn Bathu was born to fight. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself na… read more

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7. Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

By: Richard Askwith

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Exploring the world of fell-running--to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one'… read more

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8. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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10. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

By: Adharanand Finn

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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11. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

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12. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion

By: Dean Karnazes

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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13. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

By: Shane Benzie

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Heads up – here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career by Meb Keflezighi

14. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

By: Meb Keflezighi

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

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15. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Walk in the Lake District by Tom Chesshyre

16. Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Walk in the Lake District

By: Tom Chesshyre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a lakeland adventure like no other. Explore towering mountains… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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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18. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record Breaker by Mimi Anderson

19. Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record Breaker

By: Mimi Anderson

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

When Mimi first started jogging on a treadmill as an unfit 36-year-old mother-of-three, she never i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Limitless: An Ultrarunner’s Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success by Mimi Anderson

20. Limitless: An Ultrarunner’s Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

By: Mimi Anderson

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run by Sabrina Verjee

21. Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run

By: Sabrina Verjee

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the f… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed

22. Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

By: Matthew Syed

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about th… read more

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Cover of The Great North Road: London to Edinburgh – 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway by Steve Silk

23. The Great North Road: London to Edinburgh – 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway

By: Steve Silk

3.86

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

The Great North Road is Britain’s Route 66 – we’ve just forgotten how to sing its praises In 192… read more

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Cover of Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael  Crawley

24. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

By: Michael Crawley

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian 'Excellent' Runner's Wo… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery by Paul Merson

25. Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery

By: Paul Merson

4.23

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards'brave ... visceral ... a brilliant, brilliant read ... … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World by Kilian Jornet

26. Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

By: Kilian Jornet

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount E… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of In It for the Long Run: Breaking records and getting FKT by Damian Hall

27. In It for the Long Run: Breaking records and getting FKT

By: Damian Hall

4.23

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

In It for the Long Run is ultrarunner Damian Hall ’s story of running a first marathon aged thirty-… read more

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  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running by Richard Askwith

28. The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running

By: Richard Askwith

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In The Race Against Time , Askwith touches upon something larger than simply running or sport - he … read more

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29. Around The World In 80 Days

By: Mark Beaumont

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The inspiring story of one man's record-breaking cycle around the world.On Monday 18th September 20… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells by Steve Birkinshaw

30. There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells

By: Steve Birkinshaw

4.11

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary by Rachel Swaby

31. Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary

By: Rachel Swaby

4.14

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The untold true story of runner Maureen Wilton, whose world record-breaking marathon time at age 13… read more

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  • sports
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