14 must-read travel books like Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection by Laurie King

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Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

By: Laurie King

3.81

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Environmental writer Laurie King and internationally bestselling author Miriam Lancewood present a …

If you liked the travel plot in Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection by Laurie King , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

By: Anna McNuff

3.69

Format: 216 pages,

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  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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2. Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

By: Miriam Lancewood

4.13

Format: None pages,

It tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really… read more

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  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature

3. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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4. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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5. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

By: Roger Lowenstein

4.19

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amasse… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other."

-Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

-Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

"The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants."

-Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

"Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, eve…"

-Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

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6. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

By: Katie Lumsden

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more

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"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

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7. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

By: Doreen Cunningham

3.92

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2) by Kate Mosse

8. The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)

By: Kate Mosse

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The Ci… read more

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9. Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

By: Daniel J. Levitin

3.93

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes."

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"The Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus discovered the nervous system in 322 BC, placing the seat of thought in the brain. It might be fair to say that they were the first neuroscientists. P…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"A large part of people who manage to stay young, in spite of their chronological age, relates to synaptic plasticity - the ability of the brain to make and form new connections. As we've seen, plasti…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

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10. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more

Similar categories in Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change book and Laurie King's Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

  • nonfiction
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11. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) by Elodie Harper

12. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

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13. 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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  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • 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

Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

14. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Laurie King's Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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15. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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16. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Laurie King's Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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17. A Curse of Blood and Wolves (Wolf Brothers, #1)

By: Melissa McTernan

3.17

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A dark and steamy fairytale re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood. Perfect for romantasy readers a… read more

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18. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Laurie King's Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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19. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

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"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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20. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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21. Wild At Heart

By: Miriam Lancewood

4.22

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in t… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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22. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

By: Kerri Andrews

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more

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  • travel
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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23. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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24. Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

By: Anna McNuff

4.40

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to kayak down a gorge in New Zealand? Or run night-time marathons through the … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"In a bid to keep my sanity, I shifted my focus from the things I couldn’t control to those that I could."

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

"Taking photos, doing our best to record the experience, but all the while knowing we couldn’t possibly capture this, not through a camera lens anyway. It was a landscape that only the richness of mem…"

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

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25. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

By: Anita Sethi

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One woman's journey of reclamation through natural landscapes as she contemplates identity and woma… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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26. Adventure Revolution

By: Belinda Kirk

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk's professional life has revolved around adventure. She… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure
Cover of A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) by Sarah  Hawley

27. A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3)

By: Sarah Hawley

3.99

Format: 444 pages, ebook

Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying a… read more

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28. The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3)

By: Carissa Broadbent

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new … read more

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29. Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

By: Laurie King

3.81

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Environmental writer Laurie King and internationally bestselling author Miriam Lancewood present a … read more

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  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
Cover of The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor, #3) by Laurie Gilmore

30. The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor, #3)

By: Laurie Gilmore

4.06

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral TikTok sensation, The Pumpkin Spice Café, comes the only spicy grumpy … read more

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31. Wild Isles

By: Patrick Barkham

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This beautifully illustrated overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

8 best-selling adventure books like Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection by Laurie King

Transform Your Habits

The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

Anna McNuff

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

Miriam Lancewood

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

Elise Downing

4.03

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8 Top audiobook books like Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups by Anna McNuff

Transform Your Habits

Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

Elise Downing

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor

Ben MacFarlane

4.48

Transform Your Habits

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

Jenny Tough

4.27

Transform Your Habits

There is No Wall

Allie Bailey

4.39

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