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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 23:29:50 No.2791730 View View Reply Original Report

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Sup /out/,

Anyone have suggestions for good /out/ novels? Could be fiction or non-fiction, but I'm looking for good tales of expeditions or exploration in the American West/PNW preferably during the mid-19th through mid-20th century.

Extra points if it has to do with anything Fortean, like Bigfoot

Also general /out/-/lit/ thread

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 23:41:49 No.2791734 Report

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>>2791730
Anything by Abbey is 100% a /out/ vibe

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Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 11:54:59 No.2791803 Report

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All of the "expeditions" of the 19th kept journals that can be read. But there was little to none of that going on in the regions and period you specified. Most of the west, and especially the pnw, had been settled or at least made known. Powell on the Grand/Colorado was the last blank spot on the map in the late 19th. There are also Indian wars accounts from the period.
Otherwise, Mark Twain's Roughin It is a lovely account of his travels in the west and beyond as a young man in that period.
There is no silly Bigfoot stuff from that era that I know of

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 16:25:14 No.2792484 Report

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>Required Reading
Freedom of the Hills
>Highly Recommend
Ty Gagne's entire body of work (He goes into incredible detail about the mental pitfalls which lead people into risky situations)
Not Without Peril (See above)
Plant Conservation: Why It Matters and How It Works (Not pictured-on loan)
Forest and Crag (If you live in the Northeast)
John Muir (all)
Endurance
Silent Spring (not pictured-on loan)
>Heavier and dryer literature
Thoreau
The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation (not pictured-on loan)
>Excellent /out/ fiction
Moby Dick
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Anthill

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 17:09:10 No.2792495 Report

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>>2791730
ill probably get flamed for this but reading about the indigenous lore of your local region is a great way to familiarize yourself with how humans historically interacted with the nature

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 17:11:09 No.2792496 Report

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I liked The Wolf Hunters and The Gold Hunters

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 17:12:10 No.2792497 Report

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>>2792496
by James Oliver Curwood

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 00:08:40 No.2792580 Report

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>>2791734
He's a good writer, as he was an English professor, but he wasn't a very good outdoorsman. He admits to accidently starting wildfires, doing blatantly stupid things that he was extremely lucky to get out of, and generally approaching wilderness with the kind of reckless abandon that causes SARs.

Also, the untold part about desert solitaire is that he left he wife and newborn child to go work that season at arches. Doesn't mention that in the book once. What kind of man has a newborn child and not only abandons it to go play in the desert, but apparently doesn't think about it at all over his lonely summer?

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 15:43:47 No.2792713 Report

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>>2791730
May this thread live on. May be tangentially related but be sure to check out revisionist Westerns; some of my favorites are:
-The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark
-Warlock by Oakley Hall
-The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

For whatever reason the imagery in these novels just sticks with me like nothing else. Maybe because I grew up around those landscapes. Most people seem to prefer Angle of Repose by Stegner but I think Candy Mountain treats the same stuff in a much better way.

Oh, and as a bonus,
-Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.

All of these books are very, very sad, by the way.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 23:02:38 No.2792765 Report

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>>2792713
>-The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark
watched this movie a while back & thought it was great. didn't realize it was based on a book

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 23:14:03 No.2792767 Report

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>>2791730
Jack London

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Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 03:48:48 No.2792812 Report

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>>2792765
The movie is great, and unlike most book movies it's very faithful. The book would be very familiar, but with a lot more depth to the situation. There are a lot of long speeches, inner monologues and arguments. It may seem preachy at first, but soon you realize the characters are all very flawed, although some are more good and some more bad. I think you would have to be a psychopath to read it without feeling uncomfortable with your own morals at some point

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Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 03:51:41 No.2792815 Report

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>>2792812
hmm ok, i'll have to check it out sometime

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Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 04:08:49 No.2792826 Report

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>>2791730
13yo me thought that My Side of the Mountain was top kino

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Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 14:58:29 No.2792915 Report

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>>2791730
Butchers crossing by John Edward Williams

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Anonymous Thu 12 Dec 2024 03:17:16 No.2793708 Report

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Start here. Hopefully at age 10

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Anonymous Mon 16 Dec 2024 21:43:11 No.2794602 Report

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>>2791730
Humboldt - Cosmos?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Dec 2024 22:25:11 No.2794613 Report

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>>2791730
here are some absolute bangers

>death in the long grass -peter capstick
>Man eaters of Kumaon- Jim Corbett
>Man eating leopard of rudraprayag- jim corbett
>nine man eaters and one rouge- kenneth anderson
>african game trails- Theodore Roosevelt
>man eaters of Tsalvo- J R Patterson

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