A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild
10 best books like A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Jennifer Bove): Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town, Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike, As Far as the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker, Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge
Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town
| Author | Teresa O'Kane |
| ISBN | 1463741790 |
INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR OF 2012. Teresa O'Kane had always longed to see the world. She owned scads of travel books and maps to prove it and was about to buy yet another bookcase to hold the many Lonely Planet guides and travel essays that she had accumulated over the years when she turned to...
| Author | A. Digger Stolz |
| ISBN | 0615763583 |
The Appalachian Trail as a metaphor for life.
In Stumbling Thru, the Appalachian Trail is alive. We walk with Walter, our reluctant hiker who only knows that he's standing before 2,000+ miles of trail at the start of his uncertain journey. Characters that crisscross his path early on may or...
| Author | David Brill |
| ISBN | 1889386448 |
Many an armchair hiker has dreamed of traversing the Appalachian Trail in its entirety. In 1979, David Brill became one of the first of a new generation to complete the Georgia-to-Maine hike. As Far as the Eye Can See chronicles his six-month, 2,100-mile walk, a quest to grow, to breathe, to change, to...
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
| Author | Patricia Ellis Herr |
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.
In...
| Author | Arlene Blum |
| ISBN | 0156031167 |
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
| Author | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
| Author | Robert Alden Rubin |
| ISBN | 1585743976 |
I finished On the Beaten Path recently and have to say it's one of the most lyrical books on the AT experience I've ever read. I love Rubin's writing, as I should, since he was an editor before hitting the trail and made the journey after becoming disillusioned with his job, along with the difficulties editors...
| Author | Leslie Mass |
| ISBN | 0976568608 |
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0547055161 |
The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing...
| Author | Janice Holly Booth |
| ISBN | 1426207336 |
Magnetically written by former CEO of a North Carolina Girl Scout Council and award winning CEO for the Western New York chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude,...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1932361111 |
Following on the heels of the successful Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road comes another collection of hilarious travel stories by women. From America to Australia to everywhere in between, the true stories in Whose Panties are These? will have you shaking your...
Ken Budd’s The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your fate, and finding your destiny by volunteering around the world for numerous worthy causes: Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans, helping special needs children in China, studying climate...
| Author | Jennifer Jordan |
| ISBN | 0393339971 |
In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge...
The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT)is the perfect place for an average person to do something extraordinary. Bill Walker ("Skywalker"), who stands 6'11", might seem like anything but average. Yet in a brutally honest tone, he lays to bare all his considerable weaknesses and fears. Among...
Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
| Author | Joe Glickman |
| ISBN | 0762772875 |
I devoured this book. There are not enough good published stories of modern women who are truly adventurous - at least not for me. But this is a great one! The German business woman Freya Hoffmeister (among other accomplishments) circumnavigated the entire continent of Australia in her kayak, an incredibly...
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 0719561051 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, a now famous journey described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages wherever he went, and where...
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051065 |
While many dream of solo adventure, these talented and adventurous women show how it’s done. Whether hiking in Nepal, caving, sailing through choppy ocean waters, or discovering Alaska on foot, the women in these essays eloquently convey not only the thrills of the solo adventure, but also examine...
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
| Author | Lavinia Spalding |
| ISBN | 1932361677 |
Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one’s own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their...
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
| Author | Christine Byl |
| ISBN | 0807001007 |
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from...
The Trail Life: How I Loved it, Hated it, and Learned from it
| Author | Julie Urbanski |
| ISBN | 1468023128 |
Join Stopwatch, an inexperienced thru-hiker with a steep learning curve, as she tackles her first long-distance hike, the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, over 2600 miles from Mexico to Canada. She begins the trail with the sole purpose of getting to Canada and quickly realizes she has a lot to...
A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski
| Author | Erin McKittrick |
| ISBN | 1594850933 |
The adventures of a young, idealistic couple who choose to reduce their world down to just two small packs and the next 100 yards in front of them.
In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human...
The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life: How to Sew a Sampler Quilt & 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl
| Author | Jennifer Worick |
| ISBN | 1561589861 |
Frontier fun meets a home-spun touch in this heart-warming mixture of pioneer projects and wistful nostalgia. Jennifer Worick teaches readers how to sew a quilt, master the art of bread-and-butter pickles, speak old-time slang, and much much more. This is for the legions of Laura Ingalls Wilder fans...
Woodswoman III: Book Three of the Woodswoman's Adventures
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0963284614 |
As much as I enjoyed the first two books in this series of four Woodswoman memoirs by Anne LaBastille, giving both high marks, there is a distinct dip in quality of copy in this third book. Woodswoman III is the first in the series that LaBastille has published herself, under the same name with which she...
War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women and the Consequences of Conflict
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women
In 2007, the International Rescue Committee, which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really...
| Author | Guy Grieve |
| ISBN | 0340898259 |
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska.
And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was...
