17 Best nonfiction books like Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill

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Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

By: Kat Hill

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The door to the bothy is always unlocked, you just need to step inside. You will find them in th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Wildwood: A Journey through Trees by Roger  Deakin

1. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

By: Roger Deakin

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed Br… read more

Similar categories in Roger Deakin's Wildwood: A Journey through Trees book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes by Alastair Humphreys

2. Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, o… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Humphreys's Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

3. 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

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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

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4. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

Cover of Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3) by Shaun Bythell

5. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Bythell's Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3) book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • scotland
Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

6. 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

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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

Cover of Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis

7. 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 Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • scotland
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8. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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9. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

Similar categories in Shoji Morimoto's Rental Person Who Does Nothing book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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10. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

11. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered: My Years as a Nun book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
Cover of The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot

12. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: A Memoir book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • scotland
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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13. Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light

By: Matt Gaw

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other fo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Gaw's Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline by Christian Lewis

14. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline

By: Christian Lewis

4.41

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Jamie's Cairn book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill

16. Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

By: Kat Hill

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The door to the bothy is always unlocked, you just need to step inside. You will find them in th… read more

Similar categories in Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • nature
Cover of Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield

17. Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

By: Jen Hadfield

4.53

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Wher… read more

Similar categories in Jen Hadfield's Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • scotland
Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

18. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Nicolson's Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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19. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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Cover of Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

20. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

By: Dan Jones

4.61

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths by Phoebe  Smith

21. Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths

By: Phoebe Smith

3.56

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking on Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths. Faced … read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Smith's Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths book and Kat Hill's Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

  • nonfiction

6 Best history books like Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill

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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

Kat Hill

3.91

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Cairn

Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

Jen Hadfield

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

4.59

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