13 must-read nonfiction books like Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards

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Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

By: Dan Richards

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

There are still wild places out there on our over-crowded planet. Through a series of personal jour…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

4.08

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more

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2. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

By: Roger Deakin

4.27

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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3. To a God Unknown

By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne … read more

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"He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter."

-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

"مرگ حتی هنگامی‌که میدانیم باید بیاید ما را به وحشت می‌اندازد."

-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

"ما همه او را دوست داشتیم، اما میان محبت و تنفر فاصله اندکی وجود دارد."

-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

"These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes."

-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

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4. Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

By: Melissa Harrison

3.84

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and natur… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature

5. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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6. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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7. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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8. How To Catch A Mole

By: Marc Hamer

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'It is rare to encounter such respect and understanding of nature for herself.' Rosamund Young, aut… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one's connection, and then, having built - a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system - one has to protect those things fro…"

-Marc Hamer, How To Catch A Mole

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9. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • adventure
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • nature
  • audiobook
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10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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11. Winchelsea

By: Alex Preston

3.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happi… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. 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 Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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13. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Flames book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • nature
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14. A Wild Idea

By: Jonathan Franklin

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south t… read more

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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
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15. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

By: Ted Conover

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more

Similar categories in Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • audiobook
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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17. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

By: Kate Mosse

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unhear… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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18. Munt

By: Richard Osinga

3.85

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Op een broeierige middag komt een man het winkeltje van Xiao Wei in een stadje in Oost-Congo binnen… read more

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19. Greek Myths: A New Retelling

By: Charlotte Higgins

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time in this beautifully pr… read more

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20. Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North

By: Adam Weymouth

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

One man's thrilling and transporting journey by canoe across Alaska in search of the king salmon … read more

Similar categories in Adam Weymouth's Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

By: Dan Richards

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

There are still wild places out there on our over-crowded planet. Through a series of personal jour… read more

Similar categories in Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth book and Dan Richards's Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook

10 Best audiobook books like Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Winchelsea

Alex Preston

3.29

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Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

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The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

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William Boyd

4.15

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Stacey Halls

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