Recommendations?

[Nancy]

I need some Christmas book ideas. We all get books as part of our Christmas Eve gift. My family loves canoeing, camping, backpacking and snowboarding. I am looking for non-fiction books about outdoor adventures. Any suggestions. I just finished Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts.

[Roy]

Classics in natural history are those by Thoreau, my favorite being *The Maine Woods*. Good stories about hiking (my pastime outdoors) are *Not Without Peril* and *The Last Season*. Hope this helps.

[Jenifer]

I just finished and really enjoyed Sigurd Olson’s The Singing Wilderness. He lived in the boundary waters and wrote about winter, canoeing, fly fishing, growing up in rural Minnesota. Lovely book.

[Nancy]

Thank you. I will look at this one. Did you read Breath of Wilderness by Kristin Eggerling? It is about Sigurd's life.

[Rebecca]

It's not really an adventure book, but Richard Louv's new book Our Wild Calling about the human/animal connection is quite good and filled with small stories of awe in meeting animals in their natural habitat and how they change us as people.

[Nancy]

I will look them up. Thanks. I have not returned to this post in a long while.