9 Top classics books like The Tent Dwellers by Albert Bigelow Paine

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The Tent Dwellers

By: Albert Bigelow Paine

4.26

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The Tent Dwellers is a fishing and camping adventure that is as appealing today as when published i…

If you liked the classics plot in The Tent Dwellers by Albert Bigelow Paine , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • classics
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. The Lure of the Labrador Wild

By: Lawrence Millman , Dillon Wallace

4.07

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

A best-selling Arctic classic set against the unforgiving Labrador landscape. read more

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  • travel
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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3. Sailing Alone around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

4.15

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more

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  • travel
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"

-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

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4. She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

By: Ian Kerner

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First--anessential gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

5. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Cover of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2) by Douglas Adams

6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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  • classics
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7. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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  • classics

8. Ragged Company

By: Richard Wagamese

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a wa… read more

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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • classics
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

11. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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12. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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  • classics
"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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13. The River

By: Peter Heller

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white w… read more

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"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"

-Peter Heller, The River

"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."

-Peter Heller, The River

"And the eagles. They seemed to mark the canoe's progress from the gray spires of dead spruce, spaced downriver like watchmen on some lost frontier..."

-Peter Heller, The River

"Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place."

-Peter Heller, The River

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14. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • nonfiction
  • canada
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15. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

Similar categories in Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • historical
  • nonfiction
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16. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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17. 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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  • canada
"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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18. Sea of Tranquility

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more

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"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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19. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • travel
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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20. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • historical
  • canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

21. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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22. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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23. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity by Ejnar Mikkelsen

24. Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity

By: Ejnar Mikkelsen

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Farlig tomandsfærd handler om et af den grønlandske histories mest eventyrlige afsnit. Bogen fortæl… read more

Similar categories in Ejnar Mikkelsen's Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • classics
  • nonfiction
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25. 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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  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts

26. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts

27. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of The Lonely Land by Sigurd F. Olson

28. The Lonely Land

By: Sigurd F. Olson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lonely Land (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) read more

Similar categories in Sigurd F. Olson's The Lonely Land book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cracked Pots (Ari Appleton, #2) by Heather Tucker

29. Cracked Pots (Ari Appleton, #2)

By: Heather Tucker

4.22

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

“It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination … read more

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  • canada
Cover of The Tent Dwellers by Albert Bigelow Paine

30. The Tent Dwellers

By: Albert Bigelow Paine

4.26

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The Tent Dwellers is a fishing and camping adventure that is as appealing today as when published i… read more

Similar categories in Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • classics
  • canada
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

31. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more

Similar categories in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash book and Albert Bigelow Paine's The Tent Dwellers

  • classics
"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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The Lure of the Labrador Wild

Lawrence Millman , Dillon Wallace

4.07

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Joshua Slocum

4.15

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She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Ian Kerner

4.33

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Alfred Lansing

4.44

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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