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Non fiction book recommendations for DH who rarely reads?

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Mimx · 06/07/2020 22:05

We’ve got a couple of weeks booked away this summer, a rural retreat in the UK. Well try and get out and about as much as we can, but inevitably may be spending more time inside than our normal holidays abroad. The DCs and I have got fairly chunky reading lists planned, but DH isn’t much of a reader - he will do so happily if he finds something he likes, but struggles to find his kind of book. And he will nag the rest of us to be up and doing something if he hasn’t got his own book on the go!

He prefers non-fiction. Books he’s liked in the last year or so are the Simon Reeve autobiography/travel book, Peter Crouches books, John Simpson autobiography (old book!), F1 book Driven, The Mixer (history of football tactics), and Moondust (about the moon landing astronauts). He loves sport, but mainstream biographies of sports people are not his thing.

Anyone got suggestions? TIA!

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 06/07/2020 22:30

Ooh yes - In the Heart of the Sea is brilliant.

PlanDeRaccordement · 06/07/2020 22:27

Bill Bryson is a good recommendation. I did like A Walk in the Woods by him which is a journal of him hiking the Appalachian Trail in the US.

Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is good. It is about the whaling ship Essex that was sunk by a whale. Some of the survivors were picked up by a ship which had Herman Melville on board and their story inspired his book Moby Dick.

isabellerossignol · 06/07/2020 22:24

If he liked the Simon Reeve book, he might like Walking the Nile by Levinson Wood. Or Blood River by Tim Butcher.

MrsFogi · 06/07/2020 22:21

Invisible Women - best non fiction book I read last year.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 06/07/2020 22:18

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth?

Some Bill Bryson?