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Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 17:07:20 No.294253 View View Reply Original Report

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Which /out/ related books would you recommend?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 17:14:34 No.294254 Report

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I like Edward Abbey's essays. "A Walk in the Desert Hills" is great. May rustle some jimmies though.

Clarence King's "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a forgotten classic IMO.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 17:43:38 No.294273 Report

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>>294254
Why would it rustle people?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 18:30:07 No.294304 Report

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I heard Into the Wild is one of the best survival tales of all time. Everyone should read it before going /out/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 18:34:18 No.294305 Report

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>>294253
my side of the mountain. hatchet. that one jack london book about the dog. theres also an interesting book about a guy who tries to through hike the AT with an old friend who got fat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 18:45:15 No.294311 Report

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toptier book right here:

Aldo Leopold-A Sand County Almanac

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 18:51:44 No.294315 Report

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>>294273
Eh, Abbey was more or less a career rustler. Dude was a socialist anarchist who liked to shoot guns, drive irresponsibly, drink a lot, and blow shit up. That particular essay is not his most inflammatory work by a long shot, but if you get your knickers in a twist over disparaging remarks about the military or semi-reckless behavior innawoods, Abbey may not be for you.

>>294305
My Side of the Mountain and Hatchet are awesome. My grandma used to live next door to Jean Craighead George.
>book about a guy who tries to through hike the AT
A Walk in the Woods. It was pretty lulzy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 19:10:07 No.294333 Report

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John Muir's 'Steep Trails'
Robert Service's 'Ballads of a Cheechako'
'The Tramp's Handbook'

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 19:48:24 No.294345 Report

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>>294333
Oooh, that reminds me, Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart is a fun one. Survival/camping instruction from like 1912.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 20:44:18 No.294372 Report

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>>294315
>Dude was a socialist anarchist who liked to shoot guns, drive irresponsibly, drink a lot, and blow shit up.

In other words, he was the fucking man.

>>294253
OP, I second Edward Abbey. Thoreau and Emerson also have some great outdoor essays.

Jack London is great, I have the book in your pic, if you can find it I recommend it. Robert Service has some really good poetry and like London most of his work takes place in the Yukon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 21:44:29 No.294395 Report

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>>294372
>he was the fucking man
Oh, agreed, but a lot of people miss the point. They pick up Abbey expecting, you know, solemn peaceful reflection in nature or some shit and find something completely different.

I'll echo the Robert Service recommendation. David Roberts is also pretty good--Deborah/The Mountain of my Fear and Moments of Doubt are good. Jon Krakauer's Eiger Dreams is in a similar vein.

rfguy/delaware liason

rfguy/delaware liason Fri 28 Mar 2014 21:49:59 No.294397 Report

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>>294395
>>294372
as much as i like the guy I cringe at that picture every single time.

>rifle pointed at foot like that

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 21:54:21 No.294399 Report

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>>294397
Didn't even notice that, don't get why that was necessary. I just like the quote.

>>294253
Also OP I'm guessing you've heard of Robert Frost in school at least. He's an excellent poet and a huge amount of his work is nature themed

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 22:07:21 No.294404 Report

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>>294305
>>294315
>My side of the mountain & hatchet
So much these. Whole series for both were good.

If you enjoyed those you would also probably like Far North by Will Hobbs. I haven't all of these since I was.... Jesus... I had to have been 10 years old.... but they made a lasting impression and I'd give them a large portion of credit as to why I started loving the /out/doors.

Since I haven't seen it mentioned; I think "Where the Red Fern Grows" should be included here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 22:52:39 No.294418 Report

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>>294253

From the thumbnail, I thought the guy was about to karate punch the bear.

Mule

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Mule Fri 28 Mar 2014 23:02:43 No.294423 Report

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One of my favorites.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Mar 2014 23:02:49 No.294424 Report

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>>294418
Not like a knife is going to do much more

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 00:01:29 No.294438 Report

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>>294424

A knife is one thing, can you picture some one just karate punching a bear?? The person must either be really confident in their training, or high on meth.......Or both. A knife could kill a bear, just depends on if you get that lucky blow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 00:47:05 No.294452 Report

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>>294438
If it did, it wouldn't just drop dead, it would rip you apart first. And he'd have to get it right in the jugular or the eye or something to get it to bleed out.

There was the one guy in Wyoming who stuck his arm down the throat of a charging grizzly and choked it to death, something insane like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 05:57:30 No.294564 Report

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>>294452

There has been plenty of account, of ppl killing grizzlies with a knife, not a xbox HUGE knife, but like a 12 inch butcher knife. Nords for an example, for their teenager boys to be consider men, they had to kill full grown grizzly in the wild, with nothing more then a knife. Just like a gun, it's all about placement. 22LR has killed full grown moose, full grown grizzly with a single shot. Stab a bear in the right spot, it will take it down instantly.....Given there IS always that risk of getting dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 06:00:57 No.294569 Report

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>>294424
>>294438
>>294452
Knives are more effective than you'd assume - if, of course, that they're sharp and you manage to get them where they need to go. A knife wouldn't be my first or even fifth choice, but it's still way, way better than nothing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 06:01:06 No.294570 Report

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>>294564
Damn, that's pretty incredible. How fucking badass would you feel after killing a bear in melee.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 09:06:01 No.294627 Report

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>>294372
Thoreau is what we 21st centurions might call a communist hippie kook.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 12:35:45 No.294658 Report

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>>294452
>the one guy in Wyoming

C. Dale Peterson

http://www.cracked.com/funny-2935-killed-with-bare-hands/

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Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 14:29:25 No.294695 Report

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>>294253
>recommend

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Mar 2014 17:04:41 No.294771 Report

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>>294658
That's even more incredible than I remember.

The guy ripped out a grizzly's throat with his teeth. I have no words for this

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2014 21:37:11 No.295540 Report

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I just picked this up.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2014 23:23:03 No.295592 Report

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This gave me feels as a child, but made me really want to explore the /out/doors

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2014 23:35:10 No.295606 Report

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>>295540
fix't :B

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2014 23:38:18 No.295609 Report

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>>295606
lol.
I'm actually impressed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2014 23:38:51 No.295610 Report

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>>295606
Nicely done, anon!

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Anonymous Mon 31 Mar 2014 00:10:43 No.295633 Report

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whoops forgot the spine
>>295606

Zed

Zed Thu 03 Apr 2014 04:17:32 No.297523 Report

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>>295540
dat basketball cover. so you dont drop it innawoods

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:34:28 No.297981 Report

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>>294253
Sas survival handbook (the one with pictures)

Pretty much essential

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:50:34 No.297996 Report

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the foxfire series

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