[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 174 KB, 768x512, climb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18686067 No.18686067 [Reply] [Original]

Looking for books, both fiction and non-fiction featuring climbing/hiking expeditions, survival in the wilderness, ocean diving

Bonus: stories that feature horror elements in those settings also welcome.

>> No.18686218

James Dickey - DELIVERANCE

>> No.18686676

The Terror, based on real events but with some added horror (monster) elements.

>> No.18686740

>>18686067
Obligatory Jules Vern

>> No.18686743
File: 15 KB, 220x329, 220px-FlightToArras.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18686743

>>18686067
Antoine saint exupery- flight to Arras

>> No.18687027
File: 342 KB, 535x801, meditationspeaks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18687027

>>18686067
Features reports of his climbing expeditions and essays on the metaphysics/spirituality of climbing and mountains.

>> No.18687180

You can download James Cook's actual logbooks from his voyages with the Endeavour from gutenberg.org, they're in the public domain.

A must read is Thor Heyerdahl's book "Kon-Tiki", about his crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft.

Also "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" by Lt-Col J H Patterson. That book was even turned into a movie, with Val Kilmer IIRC. Its also on gutenberg.org

You can find a whole bunch of other stuff there, like "Through Central Borneo" by Carl Lumholtz, or "The English Governess At The Siamese Court" by Anna Harriette Leonowens. That book was turned into a series with Yul Brunner. Or "South!" by Sir Ernest Shackleton, about his Antarctic voyages. "The Gatlings at Santiago" by Lt, John H. Parker about the use of Gatling MGs in the Spanish American war is also a very interesting and entertaining read.