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• A Walk in the Woods

  Bryson, Bill

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  With his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month hike of the Appalachian Trail.

• How to Survive a Bear Attack

  a Memoir

  Cameron, Claire

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  An intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal, a bracing chronicle of a camping death and a moving exploration of how we can tame the wildness that lives inside us and in nature.

• Happiness for Beginners

  Center, Katherine

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  Helen Carpenter is sure the wilderness survival course with her brother's and his annoying best friend is going to be a disaster. Yet, despite everything, the vast wilderness makes Helen's little life seem bigger. And, somehow the people who annoy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Laws of the Skies

  Courtois, Grégoire

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  A children's camping trip spirals into horrifying chaos in this harrowing story of illness, accidents and a murderous child.

• Deliverance

  Dickey, James, 1923-1997

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  A wilderness excursion by four men on a canoe trip devolves into a brutal nightmare when they are violently ambushed by armed mountain men.

• The Comfort Crisis

  Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

  Easter, Michael

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  Michael Easter explores how outdoor adventure and camping unlock the evolutionary mind and the benefits of engaging with nature, leaning into boredom, and taking on hard physical challenges.

• Way Out There

  Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker

  Harris, J. Robert

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  An avid, self-sufficient backpacker chronicles his life exploring some of the world's most remote locations mostly alone and unsupported.

• The Summer of Songbirds

  Harvey, Kristy Woodson

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  When four women learn their childhood summer camp is in danger of closing, they band together to save it, sending themselves on a journey that opens the next chapters in their lives.

• The River

  Heller, Peter

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  Two friends on a wilderness canoe trip encounter danger from fire, whitewater, starvation, and brutality.

• Near the Bone

  Henry, Christina

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  Mattie and William realize there's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, and the worst thing they could do is make it angry…

• The Hiking Book From Hell

  Kalvø, Are

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  A blisteringly funny memoir from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians who decides to challenge his nature skepticism by buying ridiculously expensive gear and heading into the woods.

• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

  King, Stephen

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  What if the woods were full of everything you didn't like, everything you were afraid of and everything that made you panic? A young girl becomes lost in the woods with only her wits for navigation and only her courage to withstand the danger.

• Leave Only Footprints

  My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

  Knighton, Conor

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  An Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent chronicles his year traveling to every one of the United States National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people that America has to offer.

• Into the Wild

  Krakauer, Jon

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  The true story of a young man who hitchhiked to Alaska, walked alone into the wilderness and whose decomposed body was found by a moose hunter four months later.

• Picture Perfect

  Michaels, Fern, 1933-2025

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  Deep in the woods, a cunning killer is hiding the evidence of his most recent crime. But his work is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor...a little boy who has seen it all and must be silenced.

• Hatchet

  Paulsen, Gary, 1939-2021

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  After a bushplane crash, stranded with only a small hatchet his mother gave him, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days days learning to build shelter, hunt for food, make fire, and face his emotional struggles. A story of survival and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woods Are Always Watching

  Perkins, Stephanie

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  Best friends Neena and Josie are tested in horrifying ways when their fun hiking trip into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest turns into a nightmare.

• Where the Falcon Flies

  a 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

  Shoalts, Adam

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  From Canada's most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes another gripping journey into the vastness of Canada's landscape and history, following the route of the migrating peregrine falcon.

• Wild

  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

  Strayed, Cheryl

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  A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

• Love, Naturally

  Sullivan, Sophie

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  Dumped by her boyfriend, luxury-loving Presley Ayers decides to go on a planned couple camping trip to Get Lost Lodge by herself. There, she clashes with rugged outdoorsman Becket Keller who wonders why she bothered coming on this trip and why he's…Read moreRead more of this annotation