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Not very outdoorsy, but I got this book for my 17th birthday and immediately after finishing spent all my pennies and dimes on a one-way ticket to Europe. It's the true account of his voyage in the 1920s from Germany to Japan visiting the Matterhorn, working his passage through the Suez Canal, visiting Himalayan countries that no longer exist, hunting for tigers, and becoming the first person to take a photograph from the summit of Mt Fuji. It's so far-fetched thought a lot of it was bullshit until I got the book of all the letters he wrote to his parents, in which he tells the same story.
