12 Top nonfiction books like Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

Cover of Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by None, None, Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke

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

Similar categories in None's One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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2. Rose Cottage

By: Mary Stewart

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the pict… read more

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3. Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

4.00

Format: None pages,

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, #1) by John Straley

4. The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, #1)

By: John Straley

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work,… read more

Similar categories in John Straley's The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, #1) book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • audiobook
Cover of Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System by Raj Patel

5. Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System

By: Raj Patel

3.88

Format: None pages,

It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, … read more

Similar categories in Raj Patel's Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
Cover of Alaska by James A. Michener

6. Alaska

By: James A. Michener

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Al… read more

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  • travel
  • audiobook
  • adventure
Cover of The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt

7. The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish

By: Emily Voigt

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A journalist's quest to find a wild Asian arowana-- the world's most expensive aquarium fish--takes… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi

8. Wolf by the Ears

By: Ann Rinaldi

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Hemings has always been happy in the comfortable, protected world that is Monticello. She's… read more

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9. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

By: Mark Woods

3.50

Format: 121 pages,

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity … read more

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10. 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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11. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: None pages,

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysteri… read more

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Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

12. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton

13. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

Cover of Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

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

Similar categories in Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts by Sarah Thornton

15. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert

16. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • science
"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

Cover of The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska by Kim Heacox

17. The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

By: Kim Heacox

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.”So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heaco… read more

Similar categories in Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

18. 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
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mystery #1) by Elizabeth   Logan

19. Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mystery #1)

By: Elizabeth Logan

3.65

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

A young chef bites off more than she can chew when she returns to her Alaskan hometown to take over… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Logan's Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mystery #1) book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • audiobook
Cover of Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.) by Trae Crowder

20. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.)

By: Trae Crowder

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent t… read more

Similar categories in Trae Crowder's Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.) book and Mark Adams's Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A River Through Two Harbors (3) (Two Harbors Mystery) by Dennis Herschbach

21. A River Through Two Harbors (3) (Two Harbors Mystery)

By: Dennis Herschbach

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When Deidre Johnson fills in for Silver Bay’s only police officer for six weeks, she doesn’t antici… read more

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12 Best audiobook books like Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, #1)

John Straley

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Alaska

James A. Michener

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

Ben Montgomery

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

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