Just read Walden, pick through the Permaculture Design Manual and am in the middle of White Fang. Any outdoors books you would recommend?
>>2757355Do yourself a favor and tear out the gay intro, fuel for your campfire
>>2757337these are all good /out/ books.
>>2757365this. 100%
Worth reading? Anyone remember a book, its from when I was a child, about native living in northern Canada, the book was a story but covered their process of storing meat, making clothing and fishhooks etc.
>>2758032I’m this anon>>2757369>>2757367>>2757365I tried reading Call of the Wild and quit around halfway through. I didn’t find the perspective very compelling, which I feared would be the case before I started.
Highly recommend this, especially if you're camping out in a New England forest
>>2757337Walden eh? So you have a high tolerance for bloviating and antiquated words and don't actually go /out/ that much. Not a bad thing.Maybe Voltaire's Candid or Kipling's Gunga Din and other collected works. If you want some modern Nature-centric fantasy takes look at Patricia McKillip.
>>2758199Can't say I enjoyed it at any moment, but the sum if it all was somehow enjoyable if that makes sense. >yourpicrel i do enjoy those 1995 PDC class recordings though. Mollison tangents are great.
>>2758206Reading Walden is like working out. It's not enjoyable--per se--but you feel stronger after having put in the effort.
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird. Short middle aged Englishwoman in frontier Colorado climbs Long’s Peak in skirts, travels hundreds of miles alone on horseback in the dead of winter and has a fling with a one eyed mountain man.
>>2758032Whitefang>call of the wild. Read it today, didn't really feel connected to buck in the same way I did white fang or his mom.
Might as well get this conversation started, since we're approaching it. So /out/...which is it?>Muir>Pinchot
>>2757337Really good about two brothers who in the dirty thirties give up everything and become fur trappers.
>>2757337Huckleberry FinnTries to talk sense into one of them while floating/fishing and shit down the river
>>2758516...but i don't have a Pass
>>2757337Jack London Sea Wolf,Call of the Wild is the other dog based story like White Fang.I love Walden btw.
Really anything by Naess. I also recommend >>2757355, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Naess' Ecology, Community and Lifestyle is great, too. Zhuangzi is a good read. Silent Transformations by Francois Jullien, too.
I think this book might also be interesting. I haven't read it but saw it mentioned in the three body problem book.It is on the harms of pesticide use.
>>2758807I recommend the docs as well. Such a refreshing watch.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
>>2757337basic dude stuff
>>2757337I had a survival situation alone in the rainforest earlier this summer, where I was thinking I was really gonna die out there, and of all things the book Heart of Darkness came to mind. Think there were parts where hes wondering around lost in the congo, repeating to himself that he thought he was gonna die out there like I was. Interested in literature about rainforests if anyone knows any.
>>2757337The Sea Wolf by Jack London. I think I already said this before.
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lewis and Clark corp of discoveryThe notes they took in book form.What they have to say about the Indians is wild.
>>2757337>Woodcraft by Nessmuk >Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart>Three Men in a Boat>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek>One Mans Wilderness >Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer Abroad>Indifferent Stars Above>Endurance>Madhouse at the End of the EarthHonestly sea stories are worthy of their own thread, but these are some of my favorites>Klondike by Pierre BertonAny of the Foxfire books
>>2757365This was the best Ted talk that I had ever read.
>>2757337Does Permaculture work or is it a meme?t.curious renter
>>2763509It is not a meme. It's basically a reflection of natural processes accelerated through human assistance. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "manual" in a traditional sense, it's more a set of design principals. The design principals, once understood, can be applied to any landscape, but nobody is going to hold you hand, every location is different and they all take time. Check out the PDC talks if you are curious, the 1995 version is linked below. http://www.networkearth.org/videos/The_Function_Of_Design.html
I don't like nature writers. Stuff like Walden just feels super phony to me
>>2760941Fucking kek
I just finished this
all of Robert Ruarks stuff as well as the rest of this
Anyone happen to have anything specific to Portugal or at least coastal areas? Going backpacking through there in October and need some good reading.
>>2758525Just got this dude. Huck was a shmuck. Nigger Jim fooled him all the way and was planning rape at the end of the trip.
>>2764665sounds adorable :3
>>2757337I might be autistic but this thing is the greatest shit ever. Great to read and follow along with some cordage when you're /out/, endless entertainment and actually kinda useful.
Since starting this thread, white fang, the call of the wild and now wrapping up sea wolf. All fun books.
>>2757474the jim corbett tiger stuff is incredible. someone needs to make a movie about that guys life.
surprised this hasnt been posted
>>2765962They did, "Corbett is known to have said that "the best actor was the tiger""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=269c3FI9SYM
>>2763820Thanks anon!
>>2757337I read this as a boy, and it had a profound effect on who I am today. It is a kids book, so not sure if it will hold an adult's interest. I just remember reading and seeing all the illustrations about how to make fishing hooks and salt, it was incredible. I read the sequels too, but I can't remember anything about them. I'm going to look for a copy now before summer is officially over>>2757337>>2757337.
>>2757365He would have been considered reasonable man 100 years ago and a hero 200 years ago.
>>2765964I was wondering when Evolva would enter the room.
>>2757506absolute pile of shit book
>>2765964Cripple cringe
>>2768694absolute pile of shit opinion
>>2768658His writing was widely considered reasonable at the time of publication, the notoriety was entirely regarding the nature of his publicity campaign.
>>2768633Making your own salt from scratch reminds me of Robinson Crusoe, like the whole process he went through for wanting a table and then making a table and how much work it was for something so simple when made alone. I read it as a kid and I still think about it from time to time. Fair warning, about half of the book is religious/spiritual introspection, appropriate for the time period I guess.
>>2758032Should be mandatory reading in schools to prevent faggotry.
>>2769415my favorite part of the book is where they do a short blurb about a guy who used early Iron Age practices to survive. Then he used Bronze Age. Finally he tried Stone Age and couldn’t make it. So he killed himself. That would of been a better story if not as normal relatable.
>>2769422I do remember that part, there are honestly a ton of interesting people living off grid.
Do any of you still have that /out/ recommended reading infographic? I can't find it for the life of me, searching whatever word combination of literature/out/outdoors/books/starter pack/recommended reading turns up nothing but plebbit recommendations, even though it's such an old and recirculated image.
I ended up getting some books because of this thread. The three on bottom I already had, bought the five up top.
>>2771219Here is the view I have while reading
>>2771219I've read the Cleckner book twice but I still only magdump into the trash with irons.
>>2771219I've also read three of those books since this thread started, amongst others. White fang was fun as a dog crazy person.
>>2768633Incredibly based, I always wanted to live in ahollowed out tree after reading this.
>>2757337"Between the Lines of Drift" by hide-and-seek world champion Eric Rudolph.http://armyofgod.com/EricRudolphBetweentheLines_.html
Butcher’s Crossing
>>2774571>I always wanted to live in a hollowed out tree after reading thisSame.
>>2757337why is this book spammed in high schoolits so fucking gaylive in a shitty shack as a loser NEET for a year and get so bored you think sun on your toes is amazing
>>2758600this book was debunked as complete bullshit
>>2757355fpbp
>>2757337Foxfire seriesAny birding book for your area
Any recommendations for books regarding unsolved disappearances in U.S. National Parks? I've been watching a few youtube videos lately regarding the topic. I need something to scratch my spooky itch.
>>2757337John and Geri Mcpherson are the goats. ive come full circle with them having bought one of their books when i was 19 or something just fresh on my own and discovering nature and all that now 20 years later i am reading this "naked into the wilderness"
>>2757358What's wrong with the intro?
>>2776816nothing. anon can't read
>>2757337I read Roald Amundsen's account of the Northwest passage, his South Pole expedition, and flight over the North Pole not long ago. Great reads.
>>2776820cool! i'm reading cherry-garrard's The Worst Journey in the World at the moment
>>2757337thoreau was a trust fund faggot>>2765964wanted to post this. does he have any similar books?
>>2776816>>2776818Added in 2020, roastie mumblings and trigger warnings to make the book more palatable for cityfags who've never hunted or fished. Save time and just dive straight into leopold's writing.
>>2776931Ooh okay, I thought he was referring to the preface that Leopold wrote himself concerning Abrahamic mandates regarding natural resource use and such. In any case, I read a copy of Desert Solitaire recently with a similar nu-intro for "modern sensibilities."Even had the "let's unpack this" line.
>>2757369I honestly prefer this to Old Man and the Sea
>>2757365Required reading
>>2776649naked into the wilderness 1 and 2 by john and geri mcpherson, primitive technology 1 and 2 (from the bulletin of primitive technology newsletter) and practicing primitive (from the legend Steve Watts RIP sir)
>>2757514>60 years of self sufficient living>clearly wearing clothes from the store>that is not a stone axeLiars
