The Last Grain Race

7 best books like The Last Grain Race (Eric Newby): Earth Abides, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo, David Balfour, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes, Walking the Nile, The Weight of Glory

Earth Abides

Author	George R. Stewart
ISBN	0345487133

”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

Author	Paul French
ISBN	0143121006

Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now...

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

Author	Eric Hansen
ISBN	0375724958

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle...

David Balfour

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0684197367

For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers...

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

Author	Isabella Lucy Bird
ISBN	1566470501

Isabella, Isabella, who would have thought? You beat us hands down - in your long skirts and in your early 40's - what an intrepid traveler you were! So enthusiastic, especially about volcanoes (letting the soles of your shoes melt like that, really! and your early morning worship at the altar of lava...

Walking the Nile

Author	Levison Wood
ISBN	1471135667

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller
His journey is 4,250 miles long.
He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers.
He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis.
He...

The Weight of Glory

Author

C.S. Lewis

"The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

I have 44 highlights in the Kindle Book and I reread it regularly....