It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
By: Adrienne Lindholm
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"In the wild, something inside me opens to innovation, inspiration, creativity, and imagination. It…
Want to Read $ 16.10"It seems prudent to evaluate your choice of home every so often."-Adrienne Lindholm, It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
"It seems prudent to evaluate your choice of home every so often."-Adrienne Lindholm, It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
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1. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more
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- biography
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- adventure
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- nonfiction
- outdoors
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"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
2. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
By: None , Velma Wallis
4.08
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of… read more
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- adventure
"They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
3. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
4. Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
By: Velma Wallis
3.04
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
In her spellbinding second book, the award-winning author interweaves two classic Athabaskan legend… read more
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5. Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights
By: Sarah Marquis
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
From National Geographic's Explorer of 2014, featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wild By Natur… read more
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6. If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
By: Heather Lende
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air--and only w… read more
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7. Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
By: Ernestine Hayes
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon re… read more
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8. Call of the Wild
By: Guy Grieve
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and … read more
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9. The Aviator's Wife
By: Melanie Benjamin
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in … read more
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10. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
11. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
12. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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13. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
14. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
By: Mark Adams
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journ… read more
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- nonfiction
- outdoors
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15. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
By: Scott Jurek
4.22
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more
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- memoir
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- outdoors
- nature
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
16. The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.00
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.… read more
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"A boy trying out a man's language."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
17. Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)
By: John Scalzi
4.02
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, p… read more
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18. Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)
By: John Scalzi
4.04
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
In the world of the Dispatchers, a natural or accidental death is an endpoint; a murder pushes the … read more
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"John Scalzi “I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza." "Because it's a Hawaiian pizza?" "Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple…"-John Scalzi, Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)
19. 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
- nonfiction
- outdoors
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"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
20. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
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- nature
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
21. Under Currents
By: Nora Roberts
4.13
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've… read more
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"Czasami zły człowiek nie potrzebuje powodu, wystarcza mu okazja."-Nora Roberts, Under Currents
"Liczy się nie tylko to, z jakiej rodziny pochodzisz, kto cię wychowuje (…) – liczy się to, co z tym robisz."-Nora Roberts, Under Currents
"It shows who we are. We’re making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we’re okay. They couldn’t take who we are away from us. We’re who we are despite them."-Nora Roberts, Under Currents
22. 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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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- 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
23. Enjoy the View (Moose Springs, Alaska, #3)
By: Sarah Morgenthaler
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A grouchy mountaineer, a Hollywood starlet And miles of untamed wilderness... What could possibly… read more
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24. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
By: Kliph Nesteroff
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” … read more
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- nonfiction
25. 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
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- outdoors
26. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
By: Heather Anish Anderson
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
27. The Second Chance Hotel
By: Sierra Godfrey
3.61
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. Am… read more
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"Her mother wanted Amelia to say Of course I was coming! so her mother could then suggest that Amelia was far too busy for a little old her, and Amelia could insist she was never too busy for her moth…"-Sierra Godfrey, The Second Chance Hotel
28. Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
3.52
Format: 2 pages, Audiobook
Starring four-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Laura Linney and Tony Award nominee … read more
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29. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail
By: Barney Scout Mann
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
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- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
30. Bob & Jean
By: Robert Schenkkan
3.61
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Listening Length 1 hr 54 mins For two people not looking for love, it found them at the worst p… read more
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31. It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
By: Adrienne Lindholm
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"In the wild, something inside me opens to innovation, inspiration, creativity, and imagination. It… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
"It seems prudent to evaluate your choice of home every so often."-Adrienne Lindholm, It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
