Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
By: Anna Fleming
3.96
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock c…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- climbing
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
By: Kate Mosse
3.62
Format: 515 pages, Paperback
In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles i… read more
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- adventure
3. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
4. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
By: Tommy Caldwell
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- climbing
5. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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6. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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7. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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8. 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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9. Skios
By: Michael Frayn
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The great master of farce turns to an exclusive island retreat for a comedy of mislaid identities, … 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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- travel
- 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. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
13. 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
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
14. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
15. 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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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
16. An Argumentation of Historians (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #9)
By: Jodi Taylor
4.52
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different k… read more
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- adventure
17. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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- nature
18. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
19. A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
By: Beth Rodden
4.05
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- climbing
20. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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21. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
22. The Rest of Their Lives
By: Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall … read more
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23. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
24. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
25. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
26. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
By: Nimsdai Purja
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- climbing
27. Life and Otter Miracles
By: Hazel Prior
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage… read more
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28. 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
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- 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
29. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
30. Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
By: Anna Fleming
3.96
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock c… read more
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- adventure
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- nonfiction
- climbing
- nature
