18 books like Walking

What to read after Walking — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Excursions Henry David Thoreau · 1840 · ★ 3.7 "Excursions presents texts of nine essays, including some of Thoreau's most engaging and popular works, newly edited and based on the most authoritative versions of each. These essays represent Thoreau in many stages of his writing career, ranging from 1842-when he accepted Emerson's commission to review four volumes of botanical and zoological catalogues in an essay that was published in The… Shares: Aesthetic realism, Thoreau, Nature

My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 · ★ 4.1 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author Shares: Natural history, Nature

Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Challenging «Se è indubbio che Thoreau abbia trascorso gran parte della sua vita nella natura libera, per lo più in solitudine, lontano dal consorzio civile, è altrettanto vero che nella sua personalità così poliedrica e contraddittoria si manifesta anche una tendenza alla critica sociale: tutte le sue opere, sia le principali che le minori, testimoniano questo aspetto e lo confermano come estensione dei… Shares: Thoreau, Natural history, Philosophy

The sylvan year Hamerton, Philip Gilbert · 1876 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Natural history, Nature

A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · ★ 4.1 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words. Shares: Thoreau, Classic Literature

Ssu-chʻuan sheng chih Sichuan Sheng di fang zhi bian zuan wei yuan hui · 1992 · 459p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares: Transportation, Philosophy

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies · 1884 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: Time, Longman's Magazine, The Graphic, The Standard, The Magazine of Art, The Gentleman's Magazine, The St. James's Gazette, The National Review, The Manchester Guardian, and The Pall Mall Gazette. Shares: Natural history, Nature

The idea of nature R. G. Collingwood · 1800 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The book propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, The Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature. Shares: Nature, Philosophy

Walden and Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements  Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a… Shares: Thoreau, Natural history

The Long Walk Stephen King · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian and militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of… Shares: Walking, American literature

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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: Natural history, Nature

The Child's Book of Nature: for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and .. Worthington Hooker · 1857 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In "The Child's Book of Nature," Worthington Hooker presents an engaging introduction to the natural world, skillfully designed to ignite curiosity in young minds. Written in a style that balances accessibility and depth, the book employs vivid descriptions and captivating illustrations, making complex scientific concepts graspable for children. Hooker situates his work within the broader… Shares: Natural history, Nature

The book of a naturalist W. H. Hudson · 1918 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Natural history, Nature Shares: Natural history, Nature

Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922 · ★ 3.9 Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", filmed with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda… Shares: United States, American literature, Classic Literature

The story of my heart Richard Jefferies · 1883 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before, were… Shares: Natural history, Nature

The variation of animals and plants under domestication Charles Darwin · 1868 · ★ 3.2 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Challenging During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus accumulated a large body of additional facts, chiefly through the kindness of many correspondents. Of these facts I have been able here to use only those which seemed to me the more important. I have… Shares: Natural history, Nature

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

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