 | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.34 One of my all-time favorites -- Bill Bryson's account of his attempt to hike the A.T. Humorous, insightful, and profound, in turns.
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 | The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.89 One of America's most prolific writers, this is the account of McPhee's encounter with Henri Vaillancourt and the world of bark canoe and quiet waters.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 You've probably seen the movie. The book, as always, is better. Krakauer's account of the life and times of Christopher McCandless is a real page-tuner that raises as many new questions as it answers.
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 | The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.60 Jim Harrison is my favorite writer, and in this collection of essays drawn from various sources he chronicles his life-long passion for all things food and wine. An adventure story of a different sort, true, but one to which any aficionado of fine cuisine had in interesting places can relate.
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 | Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (P.S.) by David Edmonds
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 Practically a tableside account of the 1972 Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match in Iceland, and, through it, a brilliant way of exploring both the political and intellectual landscape of the Cold War and a way of shedding at least some light on Fischer's troubling neuroses.
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 | Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers by Stefan Fatsis
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Fatsis, a sports writer by trade, turns his attention to my family's favorite game - Scrabble. And in so doing takes the reader on a journey through the halls where competitive Scrabble is played and into the quirky minds of some of America's most talented players. Fatsis himself becomes something of an expert along the way.
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 | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.99 |
 | Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $5.23 |
 | Great Books by David Denby
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | An Outside Chance: Classic & New Essays on Sport by Thomas McGuane
Buy used from: $1.11 |
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