Lists of Bests: Outside Magazine's "<strike>25</strike> 26 Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer"

Send to Printer Outside Magazine's "25 26 Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer" 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 (found at: http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200301/200301_adventure_canon_1.html)
	1.		Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
	2.		The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 (Explorers Club Classic) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
	3.		West with the Night by Beryl Markham
	4.	?	The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
	5.		Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
	6.		Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley
	7.		Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum
	8.		Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
	9.		Coming into the Country by John McPhee
	10.		Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger
	11.		Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
	12.		The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration) by Walter Bonatti
	13.		In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
	14.		Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
	15.		A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
	16.	?	Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
	17.		The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier
	18.		Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
	19.		Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
	20.		Great Plains by Ian Frazier
	21.		Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
	22.		My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Neel
	23.		The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
	24.		Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction) by Piers Paul Read
	25.		A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) by Bill Bryson
	26.		Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
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Outside Magazine's "25 26 Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer"