Reading the Extreme in World Adventure Narratives

Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness  would be a fantastic addition, I think, to the new curriculum focus for this course. ...

I would like to suggest the narrative, A River Runs Through It , by Norman Maclean. This narrative is an excellent work that illustrates the...

I would like to recommend The Signal written by Ron Carlson. I read this book a few years ago and still remember the abso...

1. A Walk in the Woods  - I was going to suggest this as well. Similar to what Cahill's writing did for me,  I loved the descriptions of...

The novel "My Side of the Mountain," written by Jean Craighead George, introduced me to the subject of fictive adventure and has c...

One of my favorite authors is Bill Bryson (he's hilarious) and "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America" would be a ...

I was going to recommend A Walk in the Woods, I see that a few other people had the same idea. Because we covered so many different genres w...