Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
10 best books like Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness (Pete Fromm): One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Where Rivers Change Direction, A Year in the Maine Woods, Gallatin Canyon, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, Winter: Notes from Montana, We Took to the Woods
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
| Author | Sam Keith |
| ISBN | 0882405136 |
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content...
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0140153349 |
Many have dreamed of building a cabin in the wilderness and living there alone in the solitude of a region that is far from civilization. Here is the unusual story of a young wildlife ecologist who has done just that. When her marriage ended in divorce, Anne LaBastille bought twenty-two acres of virgin...
| Author | Doug Peacock |
| ISBN | 0805045430 |
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0395967015 |
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved...
| Author | Mark Spragg |
| ISBN | 1573228257 |
It is a voice that echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, thunders from the hooves of horses. It belongs to award-winner Mark Spragg, and it's as passionate and umcompromising as the wilderness in northwest Wyoming in which he was born: the largest block of unfenced wilderness in...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0201489392 |
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut...
| Author | Thomas McGuane |
| ISBN | 1400041562 |
A superb collection of stories--his first in twenty years--from one of our most acclaimed literary figures, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a writer of the first magnitude."
Place exerts the power of destiny in these ten stories of lives uncannily recognizable and unforgettably...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0679752560 |
Williams often writes about things I care quite a bit about: Utah's natural beauty and/or quirky culture; environmental activism; birds; mythology; traveling; Edward Abbey; water & hiking & animals in the wild. She writes about the trails I walk on, the mountains I climb, the rivers I traverse....
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0395611504 |
They were seeking a place to winter in the West, a secluded retreat where he could write and she could paint. Bass and his friend Elizabeth discovered the Yaak valley in northwest Montana. It was remote -- with no electricity or phone service, only erratic radio reception, and reachable by a gravel-and-dirt...
| Author | Louise Dickinson Rich |
| ISBN | 0892727365 |
In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to write about their lives. We Took to the Woods is an adventure...
| Author | David Vann |
| ISBN | 2351780302 |
Une île sauvage du Sud de l’Alaska, accessible uniquement par bateau ou par hydravion, tout en forêts humides et montagnes escarpées. C’est dans ce décor que Jim décide d’emmener son fils de treize ans pour y vivre dans une cabane isolée, une année durant. Après une succession d’échecs...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0380714604 |
Edward Abbey was a hero to environmentalists and rebels of every stripe. With Fire on the Mountain, this literary giant of the New West gave readers a powerful, moving, and enduring tale that gloriously celebrates the undying spirit of American individualism. This fiftieth anniversary edition,...
