18 books like The Silverado Squatters

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Wild Cheryl Strayed · 1767 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her… Shares Description and travel, Travel

The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate [Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how… Shares Community pick

Expedition Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Presents the Kon-Tiki expedition led by explorer Thor Heyerdahl as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood. Shares Ethnic groups, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel

Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire Bayard Taylor · 1850 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century.… Shares Ethnic groups, Zamorano 80, California, Description and travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares Description and travel, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares Description and travel, Travel

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native… Shares Zamorano 80, California, Description and travel, Travel

Venetian life William Dean Howells · 1866 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847 · ★ 3.5 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal". Shares Mines and mineral resources, Description and travel

Els viatges d'Ali Bei Ali Bey · 1814 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff Bayard Taylor · 1846 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Three years in California [1846-1849] Walter Colton · 1850 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in… Shares Zamorano 80, Mines and mineral resources, Description and travel

Westward ha! S. J. Perelman · 1948 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Voyages and travels, Travel with this book.

Le Rhin Victor Hugo · 1800 · ★ 4.4 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Two years before the mast Richard Henry Dana · 1000 · ★ 4.2 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Challenging *Two Years before the Mast* is but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance. His services in fields other than literary occupied the greater part of his life. Dana was a well known and respected lawyer, a stalwart abolitionist, and an advocate for the rights of… Shares Zamorano 80, Voyages and travels, Travel

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 · ★ 3.6 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still… Shares Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel

The working-man's way in the world Charles Manby Smith · 1853 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Printing with this book.

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