Outside Magazine's "25 26 Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer"

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Outside Magazine for January 2003 provided the following list noting that it "is devoted to books that offer the truest inspiration, the deepest reflection, the strongest provocation. These are books that seize imaginations and rattle sedentary lives."

Note: There was a tie for #23 between Alive and The Perfect Storm

  1. 1.
    Wind, Sand and Stars
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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  2. 3.
    West with the Night
    by Beryl Markham

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  3. 4.
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    The Snow Leopard
    by Peter Matthiessen

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  4. 5.
    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey

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  5. 6.
    Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
    by Frank Arthur Worsley

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  6. 7.
    Sailing Alone Around The World
    by Joshua Slocum

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  7. 8.
    Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer

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  8. 9.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee

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  9. 10.
    Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
    by Wilfred Thesiger

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  10. 12.
    The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
    by Walter Bonatti

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  11. 13.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  12. 14.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez

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  13. 15.
    A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
    by Eric Newby

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  14. 17.
    The Long Way
    by Bernard Moitessier

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  15. 18.
    Running the Amazon
    by Joe Kane

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  16. 19.
    Young Men and Fire
    by Norman Maclean

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  17. 20.
    Great Plains
    by Ian Frazier

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  18. 21.
    Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
    by Thor Heyerdahl

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  19. 23.
    The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    by Sebastian Junger

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  20. 24.
    Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)
    by Piers Paul Read

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  21. 26.
    Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
    by Jonathan Raban

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

isn’t this basically just the same books that are on their top 100 adventure novels of all time list?

i mean obviously there aren’t 100 books on this list, but 23 or 24 of these 26 are on that other list


hydra
London

Why are there 26... — 3 years ago

...if this is a list of 25 books?