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Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

10 best books like Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness (Anne LaBastille): One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Two in the Far North, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, Miles from Nowhere, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, The Singing Wilderness, A Place In The Woods

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
AuthorSam Keith
ISBN0882405136
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...
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
AuthorRita Golden Gelman
ISBN0609809547
“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the Preface

Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence....
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
AuthorBen Montgomery
ISBN1613747187
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother...
Two in the Far North
AuthorMargaret E. Murie
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks,...
A Country Year: Living the Questions
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0395967015
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...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476888
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
AuthorPete Fromm
ISBN0312422725
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
The Singing Wilderness
AuthorSigurd F. Olson
ISBN0816629927
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness,...
A Place In The Woods
AuthorHelen Hoover
ISBN0816631298
Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A...
We Took to the Woods
AuthorLouise Dickinson Rich
ISBN0892727365
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...
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