A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters
By: Amy Freeman
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From adventurers and educators Amy and Dave Freeman, a passionate and beautifully illustrated accou…
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1. The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
By: Neil Gaiman , Catherine Burns , Catherine Burns
4.42
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facin… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"No matter how horrible your day is, and no matter how scary your night is, everything can turn on a dime. When there's a knock on the door. And music, and joy, arrive. - Taylor Negron, California Got…"-Neil Gaiman, The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
2. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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- nonfiction
"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
3. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Blue Highways
By: William Least Heat-Moon
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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- adventure
5. A Walk Across America
By: Peter Jenkins
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- outdoors
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6. The Singing Wilderness
By: Sigurd F. Olson , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, … read more
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7. So Brave, Young and Handsome
By: Leif Enger
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
A stunning successor to his best selling novel "Peace Like a River," Leif Enger's new work is a rug… read more
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8. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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9. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
By: Jack Mayer
4.00
Format: 224 pages,
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of … read more
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10. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- memoir
- nature
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
12. Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
By: Emily Pennington
3.18
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- the united states of america
- adventure
- nonfiction
- nature
13. 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
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
14. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
15. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
16. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
By: Jill Heinerth
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- nature
17. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
18. The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By: Timothy Schaffert
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more
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"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club
19. The Body in Question
By: Jill Ciment
3.59
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sov… read more
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20. The Twenty-Ninth Day
By: Alex Messenger
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- nature
21. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
22. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
23. 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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- memoir
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- 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
24. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.08
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
25. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
By: Kevin Grange
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
26. Seven Aunts
By: Staci Lola Drouillard
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together … read more
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- biography
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27. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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28. Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow
By: Heather Hansman
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
*An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick * *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Awar… read more
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- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- environment
- nature
29. Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters
By: Cary J. Griffith
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota histo… read more
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- nature
30. A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters
By: Amy Freeman
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From adventurers and educators Amy and Dave Freeman, a passionate and beautifully illustrated accou… read more
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- memoir
- the united states of america
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- nonfiction
- essays
- outdoors
- environment
- nature
31. Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters
By: Joe Friedrichs
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hypothermia, lightning strikes, high winds, medical emergencies, miscalculations—the dangers are re… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
