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    I love a good real-life travel/adventure/sport story! Please send me your recommendations – bonus points for female adventures!

    I will list below the ones I have read so far just to avoid repeats (but also for those also interested in this genre):

    1. Winterdance – Gary Paulsen (sleddogs)

    2. Wild – Cheryl Strayed (hiking the PCT)

    3. Into the Woods – Bill Bryson (hiking the Appalachian trail)

    4. On the Trail if Genghis Kahn – Tim Cope (riding the trail from East to West)

    5. Wild – Robyn Davidson (walking across Aus with camels in the 60s)

    6. The Crossing – Sophie Matterson (walking across Aus with camels 2020)

    7. Woodsong – Gary Paulsen (sleddogs)

    8. Walking The Gobi – Helen Thayer (walking across the Gobi desert with camels)

    9. Fast Into the Night – Debbie Clarke Moderow (sleddogs)

    10. Into Thin Air – John Krauker (Everest disaster in the
      90s')

    11. A Life Without Limits – Chrissie Wellington (triathlon/ironman)

    12. The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls (memoir)

    13. Educated – Tara Westover (memoir)

    TBR:

    1. Rough Magic – Lara Prior Palmer (The Mongolian Derby)

    2. Wave – Sonali Deraniyagala (surving a Tsunami (adapted to film: The Impossible))

    3. Daring Greatly – Bianca Farmas-Griffith (riding the Mongolian Derby)

    4. Walking the Nile – Levison Wood (walking the Nile)

    5. Tough Women – Jenny Tough (numerous accounts of women on various adventures)

    Thank you in advance!

    EDIT: formatting

    by er_harl

    1 Comment

    1. WerewolfBarMitzvah09 on

      Travel: Patrick Fermor has several excellent classic travel books to look into. Also look into noted British female traveler Freya Stark’s writings and potentially her biography.

      For sport, can highly recommend “Berlin 1936” about the 30’s summer Olympics and “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” about the famed racehorse.

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