Books about wilderness

189 books in our catalogue · showing 1–48

Wild places and what they ask of the people who go to them: remote national parks, mountains, forests and coasts. This shelf brings together nature writing, narrative non-fiction and practical backcountry books, from weekend trips to long expeditions.

For the debate over how much land should be left to itself, see Rewilding and Conservation; for the long-distance version, Long-distance walking.

Writing on wilderness

The Half Bird

Susan Smillie

Deer Island

Neil Ansell

The Apprentice Tourist

Mario de Andrade

Bad Land

Jonathan Raban

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

Crossing the Congo : Over Land and Water in a Hard Place

Mike Martin, Chloe Baker, Charlie Hatch-Barnwell

Freedom

Sebastian Junger

Guides and practical books

Kyrgyzstan

Laurence Mitchell

Angola

Oscar Scafidi

Suriname

Philip Briggs

Rough Guides Vanishing Places

Rough Guides, Amy Hopkins

Azores

David Sayers

Falkland Islands

Will Wagstaff

Greenland

Gill Campbell, Alistair Campbell

Lonely Planet Alaska

Lonely Planet, Erin Kirkland, Amy Bushatz, Kevin Raub, Regis St Louis

Hokkaido

Tom Fay

Karakalpakstan

Stephanie Adams, Sophie Ibbotson

Western Australia

Scott Dareff

Climbing and mountaineering

On the water

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