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Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness

10 best books like Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness (Robert Kull): Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon, The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, Annapurna South Face: The Classic Account of Survival, The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
AuthorEdward Dolnick
ISBN0060955864
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American...
The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild
AuthorLynn Schooler
ISBN0060935731
With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990, Schooler met Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino,...
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
AuthorJill Fredston
ISBN0865476551
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland,...
Annapurna South Face: The Classic Account of Survival
AuthorChris Bonington
ISBN1560253150
In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna...
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
AuthorGeoff Nicholson
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism
276 pp. First edition. "How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly...
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
AuthorMireya Mayor
ISBN1426207212
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...
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0375753656
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618446656
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
AuthorPeace Pilgrim
ISBN0943734290
The silver-haired woman walked away from her name and vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace". On New Year's Day, 1953, she walked ahead of the Tournament of Roses parade handing out peace messages. It was the beginning of a pilgrimage that would last eighteen years. Traveling...
One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
AuthorGordon Hempton
ISBN1416559086
In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist...
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
AuthorEsther M. Sternberg
ISBN0674033361
Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in "Healing Spaces, " a look at the marvelously...
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0140255079
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
 
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests...
I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
AuthorBrenda Peterson
ISBN0306818043
In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived...
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
AuthorBelden C. Lane
ISBN0195315855
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.
Interweaving...
Islands, the Universe, Home
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0140109072
Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation and wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and elk and prairie dogs, and eagles falling out of the sky. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures...
Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology
AuthorPeter Sloterdijk
ISBN1584351608
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.

All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.—from Globes

In Globes—the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's...
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
AuthorJonathan Raban
ISBN0375701001
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing.  In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river...
A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski
AuthorErin McKittrick
ISBN1594850933
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 Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
AuthorEd Viesturs
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak Book Description Ed Viesturs has contributed to The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak as an author.ED VIESTURS still climbs...
Ghost Trails
AuthorJill Homer
ISBN0557024072
Most sports become inspirational when extraordinary people excel at ordinary things. In ultra-endurance racing, ordinary people must excel at extraordinary things. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the suburbs of Salt Lake City - and her unlikely...
My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks
AuthorJerzy Kukuczka
ISBN0898863449
- Tengo curiosidad, ¿y cuánto tiempo les llevará? -
- Dos semanas. Tal vez incluso una.
- ¿Una semana? - el director se enderezó en el sillón, visiblemente divertido (punto para él) -. Pero si una semana no es suficiente ni para levantar el andamio...
- Es que nosotros pintamos sin...
Laws of Media: The New Science
AuthorMarshall McLuhan
ISBN0802077153
Marshall McLuhan has been described as Canada's most exciting and original thinker, a member of the small company of intellectual geniuses this country has produced. Works such as The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Mechanical Bride , From Cliche to Archetype , and Understanding Media have established his...
Learning To Breathe
AuthorAndy Cave
At age sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father’s and his grandfather’s footsteps and became a miner — one of the last recruits into a dying world.

Every day he would descend 3,500 feet into the Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends, Andy inhabited a very different world — thousands of feet...
Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue
AuthorPeter Warshall
ISBN1892907054
"Function:
The WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation & access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting & where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed:
Useful as a tool,
Relevant to independent education,
High...
Altitude Adjustment: A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons
AuthorMary Beth Baptiste
ISBN0762791349
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...
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