>>453631Depends on what kind of /out/ you like:
-Sailing and the Sea: Patrick O'Brian or Nathaniel Philbrick
-Wilderness: Jack London, Sara Donati
-Fishing: "The Old Man & the Sea" by Hemingway
-Adventure: Stephen Crane, Louis L'Amour or Jack London
-Beautiful Outdoors: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-Travel/Exotic: Ernest Hemingway
-Hunting: Wilson Rawls
-Idyllic Country Lifestyle: William Faulkner or Mark Twain
-Bare bones living/Western high lit/desolation: Cormac McCarthy
-/out/ style philosophy: Robert Pirsig, Jack Kerouac, or Hunter Thomson
>"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."_From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
>"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."
_From "Evangaline" by H.W. Longfellow
