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James Landro
(justaddfuel) - F - M

Locale: MN
Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes. on 02/23/2010 10:49:27 MST Print View

Looking for some inspiration. I'll Start:

Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
obx hiker
(obxcola) - MLife

Locale: Outer Banks of North Carolina
Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 18:12:01 MST Print View

Category stretch: The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Karl Gottshalk
(kgottshalk) - M

Locale: Maine USA
Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 18:32:58 MST Print View

Anything by Craig Childs.
Tom Kirchner
(ouzel) - MLife

Locale: Pacific Northwest/Sierra
Re: Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 18:36:26 MST Print View

The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiesson
obx hiker
(obxcola) - MLife

Locale: Outer Banks of North Carolina
Craig Childs on 02/23/2010 18:48:34 MST Print View

Second that.
Brandon Sanchez
(dharmabumpkin) - F

Locale: San Gabriel Mtns
Re:Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 19:23:47 MST Print View

If by backpacking you mean good to read while backpacking (ie having something to do with nature/critique of society) I'd say anything by Edward Abbey
Miguel Arboleda
(butuki) - MLife

Locale: Kanto Plain, Japan
Re: Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes. on 02/23/2010 19:56:45 MST Print View

I'll second "The Snow Leopard".

You may also want to read:

"Arctic Dreams", by Barry Lopez,
"Desert Solitaire", by Edward Abbey,
"This Cold Heaven", by Gretel Ehrlich,
"Walking the High Ridge" by Robert Michael Pyle
"Having Everything RIght" by Kim R. Stafford
"The Island Within" by Richard Nelson
"The Four-Cornered Falcon" by Reg Saner
"Common Ground", by Robert Finch
"Walking Towards Walden", by John Hanson Mitchell
"A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water", by Patrick Leigh Fermor (about his walk from Holland to Istanbul in 1933, just before WW1)
"Travels with a Donkey", by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Clear Waters Rising, A Mountain Walk Across Europe", by Nicholas Crane
"The Maine Woods", by Henry David THoreau
"A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf", by John Muir

Just some suggestions...
Davey Jones
(FamilyGuy) - F

Locale: Where there is snow
Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 20:00:12 MST Print View

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

Can't get more spiritual than this!
Steofan The Apostate
(simaulius) - F

Locale: Rougeclassicism
Re: Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/23/2010 20:14:47 MST Print View

God In Search of Man by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
I thought that I almost had life all figured out... not even close!
James Landro
(justaddfuel) - F - M

Locale: MN
Re: Re: Backpacking books with somewhat spiritual themes on 02/24/2010 08:31:47 MST Print View

Incredible list you all, thank you.

I have read the road and the monkey wrench gang by edward abbey, off to the book store, thank you thank you.

Jay