Do you have a preferred author when it comes to outdoor related books or magazines? I'm a huge fan of John Gierach's fly fishing books. Anyone else have any favorites?

Robert Ruark

Capstick, Hemingway

John Graves

Jack O'Connor

John Graves

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It's sorta outdoors but John Erickson has written some books about the old west and modern day cowboys. I can't put his books down once I start. He is also the author of the well know "Hank the Cowdog" collection.

Agreed on O'Connor.

I also like Patrick McManus ... he cracks me up ...

The Chronicle guys are pretty solid, too. Pike, Thompkins, Doggett...

Bill Pustejovsky

John Muir

Rick Bass

"All or none!"

Ben Rehder

How soon we forget...Russell Tinsley.

Nash Buckingham

McManus. Hands down. Next question.

Billy Halfin

Hemingway. Read his collection of short stories. Some of the coolest outdoor stuff around and they are short enough that if you don't like one you don't feel like you wasted several hours reading it.

I am a fan of Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air) and Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods

Hemingway...like the true outdoors he always made is writing a lesson in life as well.

C.J. Box, very cool books to me.

If you havent read "the old man and the boy" by Robert Ruark you are missing out.

Hemingway - in addition to "short stories" he also has "Hemingway on Fishing" - great read - has lots of his articles for esquire on fishing the gulf stream. The life dreams are made us - except for the whole alcoholism and suicide thing.

Second favorite has to be John Geirach (Spelling?)

Krakauer is pretty good as well.

L'Amour

McMurtry

Patrick McManus

The Longest Silence by Tom McGuane.

The River Why and River Teeth by John David Duncan (even though he rips fly fishing guides in both)

The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass by Peter Kaminsky. (especially if you liked "Guide House" on ESPN). Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life : What a Lifetime on the Water Has Taught Me About Love, Work, Food, Sex, and Getting Up Early is good too.


The Snowfly by James Heywood. The only novel to ever credibly blend fly fishing, cold war espionage and political intrigue.

All of the books by E. Donnal Thomas Jr. are tops. (Hunting with longbows and fly fishing in Africa, Alaska, Siberia and other remote places). Be sure to put the "Jr." part in if you do a Google or other search. His father won the Noble Prize for medicine (his dad is from Mart, TX and a teasip) so you will get a lot of information on cell transplants and cancer research if you don't. Jr. is a doctor in Montana.


p.s. Gierach’s books are great, but if you love Gierach the author, don’t ever meet Gierach the person.


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p.s. Gierach’s books are great, but if you love Gierach the author, don’t ever meet Gierach the person.

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why? is he an ass? From his books, I would have thought he wasn't a flyfishing snob. That's pretty disappointing.

uh....Teddy Roosevelt

louis l'amour

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What He Said. My dad has a collection of practically every book LAmour as written.

No question for me. O'Connor.

Edward Abbey!!!!

Story of the German that escaped a Russian mine and walked across Siberia.

Into Thin Air... amazing movie as well.

Anything Ray Mears writes.

SAS survival guide =) (it has pictures)

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Good call on Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire is a good book.