Hey, we're with you. Given half a chance, we'd much rather hit the road than the armchair. Nothing can replace the intensity of authentic experience. And yet...
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* Raban writes during his journey
* far and away the funniest book
* British author Read’s
* Junger’s Massachusetts fishermen
* My Journey to Lhasa
* So begins Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki
* this gem
* Young Men and Fire
* Running the Amazon
* So writes Moitessier
* Robyn Davidson
* A Short Walk
* Arctic Dreams
* In Patagonia
* Bonatti’s memoirs
* The book
* Arabian Sands
* Coming into the Country
* Into the Wild
* Sailing Alone Around the World
* Endurance
* Abbey's account
* The Snow Leopard
* Read her as soon as you can
* Cherry-Garrard’s first-person account
* Wind, Sand and Stars
* Travels in West Africa
* Caroline Alexander
* My Side of the Mountain
* The Last American Man
* Grass Beyond the Mountains
* The Cadence of Grass
* Dersu the Trapper
* Peter Matthiessen
* The Snow Leopard
* The Island Within
* Annie Dillard
* Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
* The Farm on the River of Emeralds
* Tim Cahill
* Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel, Less Bliss
* Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men
* David Quammen
* Monster of God
* Across Arctic America
* This Cold Heaven
* His autobiography
* Benuzzi’s infectious awe and humor
* oddly obscure account
* this book
* insanely gripping account
* Douglas Mawson endured
* A candid, stunning peek
* Our story
* sets out to run
* Elliot’s eerily prescient memoir
* Good in Bed
* Hell-Hole of Creation
