Hey guys,

I have my kindle with me and was wondering if any of you could recommend a good backpacking/outdoor book.

Please help me kill my boredom.
-Richard

Relentless Forward Progress

by Bryon Powell

Touching the void.

The hours will fly past.

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Edited by rOg_w on 05/28/2012 14:49:40 MDT.

I've been a fan of Barry Lopez lately: Arctic Dreams (good stuff, ol Ed Abbey even liked this book), Of Men and Wolves, and I have Crossing Open Ground packed and ready for a trip this week.

Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock is a fun read.

Lots of good sailing books that anyone into UL hiking might also relate to. They range from The Cruising Life (a how to on ditching the 9 to 5 and going sailing) by Trefethren(?) to Adrift by Callahan (a survival story).

The Cormack McCarthy books are good and I think of All the Pretty Horses as an "outdoor book" to some degree.

That oughta hold ya for a few hours even if you got bumped on the flight.

The Lost City of Z by David Grann. Epic tale of the great adventurer Percy Fawcett searching the Amazon jungle for a lost civilization.

Kind of related, "1491." It's about the Western Hemisphere before Columbus. Well written and researched.

Not quite backpacking, but definitely a minimalist ethic is David James Duncan's The River Why. All about the pursuit of an ideal life thru ... fishing. But even if you don't fish, it's all about finding that special place in the wilderness.