Outside’s Top 25 Adventure Books

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  12.02.02 | 3:09 PM ET

We know what you’re thinking. There aren’t enough lists. We need more lists! Worry not. The January issue of Outside magazine, which just landed in my mailbox, features the editors’ top 25 non-fiction adventure books from the last 100 years—books that, the editors maintain, “seize imagination and rattle sedentary lives.”

What made the cut?

Predictably, Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods,” Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” and Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” are there, as they should be.

Not-so-predictably, so are Jonathan Raban’s “Old Glory”  about the author’s journey down the Mississippi River in a 16-foot aluminum boat; Thor Heyerdahl’s “Kon-Tiki”; and Norman Maclean’s “Young Men and Fire,” which the magazine describes as “the original smoke-jumper story.” All in all, it’s a thoughtful, provocative list.



1 Comment for Outside’s Top 25 Adventure Books

rocck 08.25.07 | 10:48 PM ET

edward abbey was an ass

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