So far my list includes:
Killing Pablo
Reefer Madness
....
political is good
i've read everything HST so thats out
Totally love Greg Palast's style.
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So far my list includes:
Killing Pablo
Reefer Madness
....
political is good
i've read everything HST so thats out
Totally love Greg Palast's style.
prolly not a 2 week read for any of these but here's what I've been into:
Himalaya by Michael Palin
Life of Pi by some dude
The Lost World and The Poison Cup by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Prince by Machiavelli
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Have you read Band of Brothers? Damn good book. Also, Of Men and Mountains by William Douglas is a good outdoors book.
Jane Austen. Thomas Pynchon. "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel". Tolstoy.
"under the banner of heaven"
If you havn't already.
The Greening Of America by Charles Reich old (1970) but interesting
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"Undaunted Courage" - Stephen Ambrose
and depending on where you're sailing... "Endurance" or "Moby Dick"
Ohhh and Money by Martin Amis. It is the M103 of books.
Not historical.....but funny and Nautical
Fluke by Christopher Moore
Pick up whatever you haven'r read by Bret Easton Ellis.
Hawaii by James Michener
The heart of the sea
Snow in the Kngdom, by Ed Webster.
Good Everest story about his three attempts at the mountain.
Any book by Ambrose.
Moby Dick.
Shogun and Tai Pan by Clavelle
Anything by Naguib Mahfouz: The Harafish, Palace Walk, The Thief and the Dogs, Respected Sir. The guy has an amazing touch and vocabulary, a palpable conduit of Egyptian life.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club). Just about everything he writes has some sort of twist to the end. Great stuff.
Death, Daring, and Disaster. Don't remember who wrote it, but it chronicles the history of search & rescue in the national parks. Great stories in there. Some of them will make you question your desire to go into the back country.
Brighten The Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell. Fred was my buddy's advisor while he was getting his MFA in writing. A good book to pass a little time.
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Yeah, it's sci-fi, but the unabridged version will definitely take some time and there are a lot of socio-political overtones to it that could still be applied today (you could really say that about a lot of sci-fi writing).
Red Badge of Courage -- Stephen Crane
Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horwitz
"Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before"
"The Sett" by Ranulph Ffienes.
Oh yeah, did you see this thread?
http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36733
A Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey
After American Psycho, I've vowed never to pick up another one of his books.Quote:
Originally Posted by runethechamp
The Prize by Daniel Yergin.