Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
10 best books like Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods (Cary Griffith): The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II, In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon, Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks, Canoeing with the Cree, A Journey North: One Woman's Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake, Listening Point
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
| Author | Nick Jans |
| ISBN | 0452287359 |
With a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled “bear whisperer” dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled in October 2003,...
| Author | Dan White |
| ISBN | 0061376930 |
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared...
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
| Author | June Wandrey |
| ISBN | 0962555509 |
June Wandry's Bedpan Commando offers the reader a lighthearted look at the life of an Army nurse during WWII. Her narrative focuses on the hardships a woman faced when living with men in a war zone, she rarely mentions the horrors she must have seen. This is due to the fact that the book is a collection of...
| Author | Joan Druett |
| ISBN | 1565124359 |
After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later,...
| Author | Lene Gammelgaard |
| ISBN | 0060953616 |
On May 10, 1996, Lene Gammelgaard became the first Scandinavian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But a raging storm and human error conspired to turn triumph into catastrophe. Eight of her team's climbers, including its renowned leader Scott Fischer, perished in a tragedy that would make...
| Author | Andrea Lankford |
| ISBN | 0762752637 |
The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks
For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol...
| Author | Eric Sevareid |
| ISBN | 0873515331 |
In 1930 two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over...
| Author | Adrienne Hall |
| ISBN | 1929173059 |
I was really disappointed by this book.
It's as if Hall is writing two books at once. One is a sorely lacking personal account of her time on the trail, and the other is her nerdy foray into factual legalese about the trail full of statistics and pages of things I skimmed over because it was putting...
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0393320596 |
Anne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her best-selling book Woodswoman, tracked her down; land developers arrived; there was air and noise pollution...
Poetic meditations about Olson’s cabin and his life there.
This long-awaited paperback edition of a cabin-reading classic tells the story of Olson’s Listening Point from his first night of sleeping under the stars, to the eventual building of his retreat there.
"Mr. Olson...
During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea.
Applying...
| Author | George Spearing |
| ISBN | 1411656180 |
This story of a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike is both the same and different as the dozens of other accounts I’ve read.
It is the same because the trail is the same, the difficulties are the same, and the challenges of writing about a 5-month walking adventure are the same. After all, walking...
Finding Everett Ruess
by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large...
It made no sense. I was a successful surgeon. I had all this stuff. Why was my life falling apart? Why was I miserable? I needed to talk to someone, but the only person who would listen was my sister, Amy, and I wasn’t in the mood to have another Christ-sandwich shoved down my throat…
Through...
| 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...
| Author | Tom McMillan |
| ISBN | 0762795220 |
United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but there’s so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax. Amazingly, the...
| Author | Katherine Darling |
| ISBN | 1416565272 |
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes
To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining...
How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere
| Author | Bradford Angier |
| ISBN | 1579122213 |
A practical, readable and indispensable guide for anyone venturing into the wilderness, this is a book that should be in every survival kit. Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation and Safety, this enlightening manual reveals how to catch game without a gun, what...
| Author | Nick Rosen |
| ISBN | 0143117386 |
A look inside the subculture of off-grid living, taking readers across the ideological spectrum and across America
Written by a leading authority on living off the grid, this is a fascinating and timely look at one of the fastest growing movements in America. In researching the stories that...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0691000654 |
This, like all Heinrich's books, is a really fantastic read. The owl, Bubo, is observed both as pet-companion and scientifically. Here he is living in a small wooden cabin in the woods with a very large, 2' tall, 4-5' wingspan crazy, possessive owl that he raised from fluffy owlet mostly on road kill....
| Author | Bob Madgic |
| ISBN | 1580801420 |
3.0 STARS
Recognizing my penchant for hiking and exploration of the natural world, a co-worker highly recommended this account of tragedy and loss during an ascent of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park in July 1985.
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| Author | Todd Balf |
| ISBN | 0609609890 |
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blurb - The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien, a place...
| Author | Lawton Grinter |
| ISBN | 0985241500 |
"I never set out to hike 10,000 miles. It just sort of happened over the course of a decade." And so goes Lawton Grinter's compelling collection of short stories that have been over ten years and 10,000 trail miles in the making. I Hike brings the reader trailside with blissful moments on the highest mountain...
