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I'm looking for books about nature and about walking.

The Walk by Walser was pretty good, and I have some non-fiction books on my list:
The peregrine
Desert Solitaire
A Sand County Almanac : With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Which I got from the last thread.
What else do you recommend?

>> No.8955026

Werner Herzog has a great diary about walking from Munich to Paris, 'Of Walking In Ice'

Maybe Hamsun's Growth of the Soil. The Forest Unseen is wonderful non-fiction about a square of forest as it develops over the year.

>> No.8955049

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Walk to Freedom

True story about about a guy who escapes from a Siberian gulag and walks from there to India. (consult a map)

Also they see Yetis. Dunno if it's all true but it was a great read.

>> No.8955051

The Lord of the Rings

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>>8955018
It's not about walking but it's about living in nature with some lovely digressions and divine prose. Comfiness shall reign supreme upon the realms of your soul after you're done with this.

>> No.8955159

>>8955018

'The Colossus of Maroussi' by Henry Miller

+ 'A Time of Gifts' by Patrick Leigh Fermor

+ John Muir

>> No.8955594

>>8955018
The Old Ways by Robert McFarlane

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>>8955018
pic related

>>8955159
+1 for patrick leigh fermor

>> No.8955692

>>8955026
Seconding Herzog, its exactly what youre looking for

>> No.8955704

Thoreau's Walking is nice and short read

>> No.8956036

A Time of Gifts
Between the Woods and the Water
The Broken Road
All by Patrick Leigh Fermor

>> No.8956083

Ernst Jünger - The Forest Passage

Goethe - Italian Journey

Joseph von Eichendorff - Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

>> No.8956095

>>8955018
the road

>> No.8956102

Pan by Knut Hamsun

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Big thanks to everyone here, I really appreciate your help and have added most of them to my to-read list and will look for them tomorrow.

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Pic related is what comes to mind, anon.

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>>8956500
Thanks, I have added it too.