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
  3. 3.
    West with the Night
    by Beryl Markham
  4. 4.
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    The Snow Leopard
    by Peter Matthiessen
  5. 5.
    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey
  6. 6.
    Endurance
    by Frank Arthur Worsley
  7. 7.
    Sailing Alone Around The World
    by Joshua Slocum
  8. 8.
    Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer
  9. 9.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee
  10. 10.
    Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
    by Wilfred Thesiger
  12. 12.
    The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
    by Walter Bonatti
  13. 13.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin
  14. 14.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez
  15. 15.
    A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
    by Eric Newby
  17. 17.
    The Long Way
    by Bernard Moitessier
  18. 18.
    Running the Amazon
    by Joe Kane
  19. 19.
    Young Men and Fire
    by Norman Maclean
  20. 20.
    Great Plains
    by Ian Frazier
  21. 21.
    Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
    by Thor Heyerdahl
  23. 23.
    The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    by Sebastian Junger
  24. 24.
    Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)
    by Piers Paul Read
  26. 26.
    Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
    by Jonathan Raban
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Created by hellomagda on Apr 25, 2006.
 

Comments

Jason

Untitled — 3 years 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

Feb 21, 07:17AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hydra

Why are there 26... — 5 years ago

…if this is a list of 25 books?

Jul 19, 09:21AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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