My Pride and Joy: An Autobiography
10 best books like My Pride and Joy: An Autobiography (George Adamson): I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, Ring of Bright Water, Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration), High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places, Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters, Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa, Altitude Adjustment: A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
| Author | Anne Bogel |
| ISBN | 0801072921 |
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.
I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary...
| Author | Gavin Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0140249729 |
I wanted to read this after having a go at Miriam Darlington’s Otter Country, which in many ways revolved around this book and the landscape described by Gavin Maxwell. He got much closer to the animals than Darlington, so perhaps it’s not surprising that his account is more interesting and vital....
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140089365 |
This is the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and of all the things its success has brought her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the...
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
| Author | Anatoli Boukreev |
| ISBN | 0312965338 |
As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive...
On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions,...
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
Published for the first time in English, The Mountains of My Life collects the classic writings of world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and tells the real story of the 1954 controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life.
Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time,...
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
| Author | David Breashears |
| ISBN | 0684865459 |
For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker...
| Author | Winton Porter |
| ISBN | 0897328493 |
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new...
Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa
| Author | Tony Fitzjohn |
| ISBN | 0307716031 |
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards...
Altitude Adjustment: A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons
| Author | Mary Beth Baptiste |
| ISBN | 0762791349 |
Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman. To the horror of her traditional, ethnic family, she divorces her husband of fifteen years, dusts off...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
| Author | Heather "Anish" Anderson |
| ISBN | 1680512366 |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
