Outside Magazine - 25 Essential Adventure Books

[rideforever]

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/The-25--Essential--Books-for-the-Well-Read-Explorer--25-21.html


25.
OLD GLORY
Jonathan Raban
(1981)

24.
A WALK IN THE WOODS
Bill Bryson
(1998)

23.
ALIVE
Piers Paul Read
(1974)

23.B
THE PERFECT STORM
Sebastian Junger
(1997)

22.
MY JOURNEY TO LHASA
Alexandra David-Neel
(1927)

21.
KON-TIKI
Thor Heyerdahl
(1950)

20.
GREAT PLAINS
Ian Frazier
(1989)

19.
YOUNG MEN AND FIRE
Norman Maclean
(1992)

18.
RUNNING THE AMAZON
Joe Kane
(1989)

17.
THE LONG WAY
Bernard Moitessier
(1971)

16.
TRACKS
Robyn Davidson
(1980)

15.
A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH
Eric Newby
(1958)

14.
ARCTIC DREAMS
Barry Lopez
(1986)

13.
IN PATAGONIA
Bruce Chatwin
(1977)

12.
THE MOUNTAINS OF MY LIFE
Walter Bonatti
(2001)

11.
TOUCHING THE VOID
Joe Simpson
(1988)

10.
ARABIAN SANDS
Wilfred Thesiger
(1959)

9.
COMING INTO THE COUNTRY
John McPhee
(1976)

8.
INTO THE WILD
Jon Krakauer
(1996)

7. COMPLETE
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
Captain Joshua Slocum
(1900)

6.
ENDURANCE
F.A. Worsley
(1931)

5.
DESERT SOLITAIRE
Edward Abbey
(1968)

4.
THE SNOW LEOPARD
Peter Matthiessen
(1978)

3.
WEST WITH THE NIGHT
Beryl Markham
(1942)

2. COMPLETE
THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
(1922)

1.
WIND, SAND AND STARS
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(1939)



Am I right in thinking only 2 and 7 are available ?

[annise]

7 has been done - great listen.
I thought we had done the Scott one but it doesn't look as we have. Unless you can prove any of the rest are PD for some reason, the rest can't be read for LibriVox

Anne

[BellonaTimes]

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
is in Project Gutenberg, and like the one Anne mentioned, is the only other one we can record. I would suggest parallel works found all through that library, tons of firsthand accounts by the original explorers and sightseers, like Isabella Bird, Lafcadio Hearn, and others.

[ColleenMc]

Only two of this list are currently in the public domain and both have been recorded:

Sailing Alone Around the World: https://librivox.org/sailing-alone-around-the-world-by-joshua-slocum/

The Worst Journey in the World:
https://librivox.org/the-worst-journey-in-the-world-by-apsley-cherry-garrard/
https://librivox.org/the-worst-journey-in-the-world-vol-2-by-apsley-cherry-garrard/

Much as I'd love to help record some of these other books, they are almost all a long way from becoming PD

Colleen