Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Outside's Best Adventure Books List

Several weeks ago, I posted National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books list, and tonight I give you a similiar list: Outside Magazine's 25 Best Adventure Books of the Last 100 Years. I haven't read many of the books on this list, but I've heard good things about many of them. How many have you read and what did you think about them?
Here's the list:
1. Wind, Sand & Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1940)
2. (Tie) The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) and Journals by Meriwether Lews and William Clark (1841)
3. West With the Night by Beryl Markham (1942)
4. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (1978)
5. Desert Solitare by Edward Abbey (1968)
6. Endurance by F. A. Worsley (1931)
7. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1900)
8. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)
9. Coming into the Country by John McPhee (1976)
10. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger (1959)
11. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (1989)
12. The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti (1998)
13. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (1977)
14. Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1986)
15. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (1958)
16. Tracks by Robyn Davidson (1980)
17. The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier (1971)
18. Running the Amazon by Joe Kane (1989)
19. Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (1992)
20. The Great Plains by Ian Frazier (1989)
21. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (1950)
22. My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel (1927)
23. (Tie) Alive by Pier Paul Read (1974) and The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (1997)
24. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (1998)
25. Old Glory by Jonathan Raban (1981)

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