/lit/ meets /out/

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here man

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>my /out/
my MIND /out/. I should probably spend this time learning how to proof read...

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>>9106274

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if you want some early 20th century horror from an avid outdoorsman, check out Algernon Blackwood - The Willows and The Wendigo.

>>9106274
>>9106260
into the heart of borneo
black lamb grey falcon
Walden

I recommend Antal Szerb. A lot of his books mostly deal with travelers going to some country aimlessly and just taking in sights.

jules verne seems pretty /out/

Moby Dick is the most /out/ book I've ever read

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>>9106260
i have the highest respect for /out/ists

mason & dixon - pynchon
walden - thoreau
john muir
shadow country - matthiessen
far tortuga - mattiessen
old man and the sea - hemingway
independent people - laxness
reveries of the solitary walker - rousseau
works and days - hesiod
georgics - virgil

might as well get some luddite philosophy in there as well

the technological society - ellul

Good gravy, I thought /lit/ was a slow board! Thanks for all your suggestions. I enjoyed Moby Dick, it wasn't what I expected though! Kim by Kipling is also an /out/ish book I throughy enjoyed. However, so far I think To God Unknown has been my favourite.

>>9106274
I'm going to start with some of the general books from this list.

>>9106274
can't see it in there but Charles Waterton should be on that list and if it's not, then OP should read him anyways

>>9106260
>>9106998
On the other hand I'm a bit different: I like to spend time outdoors reading meditative, plotless books about loser shut-ins.

>>9108484
A rebours, man, if you haven't got to it yet.

>>9106260
Okay, so I respect everyone else's opinion in this thread, but OP, I have exactly two suggestions for you, and I really do suggest that you start with them. Honestly, it's more like begging, because nothing has every really come close to them for me, and I'm willing to defend them to the last against anything posted here, even Walden and Muir

>Poetry
The Complete Works of Robinson Jeffers

>Prose
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker

>>9106260
Gary Snyder

A while back there were a lot of posts about a specific poet who mostly wrote about nature. I think he wrote from the 20th century on, but I could be wrong. I don't believe his name has been posted yet.

>>9108544
Likely Robinson Jeffers, mate >>9108498

>>9106998
The Snow Leopard also by Peter Matthiessen. It's half about his obsession with Zen Buddhism and half about his hike through the Himalayas in search of the elusive snow leopard.

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>>9108498
Good ones, anon.
>>9108486
One of my favourites, indeed.

Post your /out/-worthy /lit/ pictures (or vice versa), gentlemen.

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>>9106260
Pan by Knut Hamsun

>>9108627
>One of my favourites, indeed.
You might also like Bouvard et Pecuchet

>>9108484
The Tunnel.

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>>9108630
I haven't read any Flaubert yet and I was going to start with his three tales, then probably Madame B. If this is similar to Huysmans maybe I'll start with it then.
>>9108751
Heard a lot about it but before I get to these pomo phonebooks I still have a lot of classics to cover.

>>9106260
Farley Mount writes some good outdoor adventure/noble savage stuff.
Check out People of the Deer

>>9108628
Growth of the Soil by hamsun

>>9106260
There were many books that I believed were good "at the time," but now there's not a one of them that I'd recommend as being especially insightful, meaningful or useful. However, some self-help books are good: as in Positive. And if you read even "one," you are more [emotionally] intelligent than approximately 99.9999% of the ~8 billion people on earth.