Hiking books

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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
A humorous account of walking part of the Appalachian Trail, mixing trail description with history and self-deprecating commentary; one of the most widely read hiking books.
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed
A memoir of walking the Pacific Crest Trail alone after the death of her mother and a period of personal collapse; it made the trail-memoir form widely known.
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Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
A cultural history of walking, covering its place in politics, philosophy, art and cities; it treats walking as a subject beyond the trail.
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The Man Who Walked Through Time
Colin Fletcher
An account of walking the length of the Grand Canyon, one of the early books that combined a long walk with close attention to landscape and self-reliance.
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The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
A memoir of walking the South West Coast Path in England after the couple lost their home and money; it is a walk written in the context of hardship.
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