A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail

Balancing on Blue: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Keith Foskett · 276 pages

A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail

Jeff Alt · 303 pages

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt · 323 pages

"Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) wrote this firsthand account of his experiences as coleader of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition during its trek through unknown regions of Paraguay and Brazil from the late fall of 1913 to the spring of 1914. Instigated at the request of the American Museum of Natural History and the Brazilian government itself, the expedition was charged with mapping t

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library Series)

Isabella L. Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin · 276 pages

Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature

Thor Heyerdahl · 276 pages

Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail

Bill Walker · 229 pages

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

Chris Stewart · 256 pages

James Herriot's Yorkshire

James Herriot · 224 pages

A Guided Tour Through the Beloved Land of *All Creatures Great and Small*. Takes readers on a delightful walking tour of the land he brought to life in his memoirs. Glorious color photography is supplemented by Herriot's own irresistable descriptions.

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson · 304 pages

Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, and the surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals and people.

Barefoot Sisters Southbound

Lucy Letcher, Susan Letcher · 477 pages

"At the ages of 25 and 21, Lucy and Susan Letcher set out to thru-hike the entire 2,175 miles of the Appalachian Trail--barefoot. Quickly earning themselves the moniker of the Barefoot Sisters, the two begin their journey at Mount Katahdin and spend eight months making their way to Springer Mountain in Georgia. As they hike, they write about their adventures through the 100-mile Wilderness, the ro

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Raja Shehadeh · 211 pages

"Provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine"--Jimmy Carter (from cover).

Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail

Erin Miller · 320 pages

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Robert Louis Stevenson · 209 pages

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still po

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

Mark Woods · 312 pages

"'In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal'--Ken Burns; Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and f

The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail

Dan White · 384 pages

The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared an apartment together survive six months in the desert with little more than a two-person tent and some trail

The Snow Geese

William Fiennes · 272 pages

"Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at

I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

Gail D. Storey · 221 pages

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Simon Armitage · 285 pages

In the summer of 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born. Tr

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck · 256 pages

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

David Miller · 256 pages

Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail

Dennis R. Blanchard · 342 pages

Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge

Jill Fredston · 300 pages

Overloaded Ark

Gerald Durrell · 238 pages

The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest

M. Wylie Blanchet · 194 pages

A compendium of a young widow's summer travels among the islands and fjords of British Columbia with her five small children. The family lived and travelled on a small motor launch getting to know that remarkable coast and it's cast of characters starting in 1927. Her enchanting account has become a treasured local classic in B.C.