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Staying in north wales for a few days next week. Its a solo trip so looking for good books to pass the time when im not riding.
Must be wilderness/adventure type fiction along the lines of The Revenant.
What have got?
"Solo cyclist murders of the North Wales wilderness : An unsolved mystery" by Madeline Axeman.
It's more of a reference book really.
Enjoy your trip.
The Terror - Dan Simmons
Read any Cormack McCarthy? Mostly big adventure stuff, travels across the US/Mexico (get Google Translate up occasionally!) Border Trilogy particularly. Superbly written and really absorbing. (Thanks to whoever recommended on here many moons ago)
“Solo cyclist murders of the North Wales wilderness : An unsolved mystery” by Madeline Axeman.
It’s more of a reference book really.
Enjoy your trip.
You`re not from round ere, are you boyo!
"Thirty Days in the Samarkand Desert with the Duchess of Kent" by A. E. J. Elliott, O.B.E.
You`re not from round ere, are you boyo!
seeing that you use "boyo" for North Wales, neither are you
seeing that you use “boyo” for North Wales, neither are you
LOL, no I am not. No offence intended to anyone from North Wales, but just in case I will keep my whereabouts a closely guarded secret.
Hard to look past Cormac McCarthy here, but if you do then Butcher's crossing by John Williams is exceptional, and a forerunner to Blood Meridian et al.
Written in the 60s but has been re-issued, as Williams' work has been re-discovered [he was an esteemed author in his time (won the US National Book Award I think), but not widely read even in the States].
While Cormac McCarthy’s books are some of my favourites, and The Crossing is utterly beautiful, I’m not sure I’d recommend any of them for a solo trip. I normally feel like I need a week of counselling after reading them. They are generally brutal and bleak. I’ve had one sitting on my shelf for almost a year waiting for a point where I feel positive and upbeat enough to cope with it.
He did say “on the lines of the Revanant”...and, though I’ve only seen the film, it doesn’t come across as a jaunty day-trip-to-Morcombe-beach type scenario 😉
Jack London or Grey Owl short stories set in the wilderness.
They did To Build a Fire on R4 Book at Bedtime and it was so gripping it kept me awake..
The Thicket by Joe Lansdale.