I'll start: 'Three cups of tea' - the tale of Greg Mortenson's failed attempt to climb K2, and how it led to him becoming a humanitarian and building 55 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I was in tears by the end of Chapter 3.

The Horizontal Everest

Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island  by Jerry Kobalenko.

An excellent tale of walking and camping in the cold

minus 58f : an alien world where plastic bags snap like potato chips

'This Thing of Darkness' by Harry Thompson. Historical novel about Captain Robert Fitzroy and Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle in Tierra Del Fuego. Good Stuff.

It's a little cerebral but certainly covers "landscape". Magnificent:

 The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Places-Robert-Macfarlane/dp/1862079412

Last two recommendations are two of my very favourite! Great books!

"Four Corners" - Kira Salak's account of her journey by canoe through Papua New Guinea. She's one of my heroines.

"Round Ireland with a Fridge" - Tony Hawks makes a bet that he can hitchhike around Ireland in one calendar month, with a fridge in tow. Could only happen in Ireland. 

That Simon Calder book I recently put onto the Bargains thread about his travels on the GR10 Pyrenees trail. 

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0753509024Great book. nb - Don't go paying the full eight quid for it if you want it though! That offer price I found and posted earlier on in the Bargains thread still holds!

Blizzard: Race to the Pole by Jasper Rees is the BBC publication that accompanied the attempt to retrace Scott's expedition to reach the South Pole. I'm not an avid reader, but I found this compelling. It left me want to know more about Scott's attempt. Consequently I just bought the following for summer hols reading...

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry Garrard. He was amongst those sent back by Scott at the final stage and later was amongst the party that found the bodies. I want to hear just what it was like being under Scott's command.

Journals: Capt Scott's Last Expedition by R.F Scott. The man himself! I want to hear his thoughts, though I suspect many of them are down-beat as he suffered several accounts of depression on his trip.

By appreciating what these people have been through, I hope that my niggles about wet weather, sore feet and aching limbs will be put into perspective once and for all.

Mountain Days & Bothy Nights by Dave Brown & Ian Mitchell.

Just re-printed by Luath press though i got a pristine 2nd hand copy off Amazon.

Tim Moore's book, French Revolutions, in that list is highly entertaining and well worth a read. I guess it qualifies for this thread under the 'adventure' banner, although maybe not in the epic sense....

Whenever book threads crop up I always recommend 'Always a Little Further' by Alastair Borthwick. It's subtitled as a Classic Tale of Camping, Hiking and Climbing in Scotland in the Thirties and it's a very entertaining read. I think it's out of print, but well worth it if you can pick up a second hand copy.

You can tell me off if you want, but I still want to put in again to a books thread here 'The Book of the Bivvy' from Cicerone Press, as I think it is great! Mr Turnbull is superb in that one! Also don't forget all the great travel adventure books of Chris Townsend's various trips too, both at home and abroad.

http://www.aboveandbeyond.co.uk/shop/cicerone-the-book-of-the-bivvy.html?utm_source=googleproducts&utm_medium=cpc

try this one - hunted by david fletcher.  apparently it's "a true story of survival" (says so on the back cover) about a british climber in alaska who, on a solo climb, manages to stumble upon a grizzly she-bear and her cub.  the guy manages to kill the cub by accident, so then the obviously pissed off mother bear sets out after this guy and for the next few days he manages to keep out of the bear's way by climbing up steep ice columns and the like, until there is a massive 'fight' at the end that involves exploding gas canisters and ice axes..! i won't spoil the ending in case you find a copy somewhere!!  

Trevor D Gamble wrote (see)

You can tell me off if you want, but I still want to put in again to a books thread here 'The Book of the Bivvy' from Cicerone Press, as I think it is great! Mr Turnbull is superb in that one! Also don't forget all the great travel adventure books of Chris Townsend's various trips too, both at home and abroad.

http://www.aboveandbeyond.co.uk/shop/cicerone-the-book-of-the-bivvy.html?utm_source=googleproducts&utm_medium=cpc

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Bill Bryson's a Walk in the Woods. About his attempt to walk the Appalchian trail despite never previously doing much walking. Hillarious.

Hell of a Journey: On Foot Through the Scottish Mountains in Winter by Mike Cawthorne.

Rivetting read. Tales of climbing some hills, finding some of his food caches eaten by mice, and of course winter storms.