A book about living or travelling somewhere wild, camping, settling somewhere new

[PeonyFlush72]

Hello, can you help recommend a book for me please?

I'm interested in people leaving behind normal suburban or city life and either travelling or living somewhere simple.

For example, travelling around in a camper van, or doing an epic journey camping. Not visiting famous places etc just basic exploring and experiences.

Or maybe someone moving to rural x and doing up a house and starting a new life.

I loved the Carol Drinkwater books, also enjoyed Alex Roddie and the Hildasay walker.

(Can you tell that I'm rather unfulfilled with my stuffy safe suburban life?!)

Thanks in advance.

The Retirement Rebel.

I also found it wildly hypocritical that she told all these stories of people judging them for being homeless and yet repeatedly referred to the option of accepting a council house as utterly unthinkable

alastairhumphreys.com/shop/

Alastair Humphreys has been on many adventures.

Driving Over Lemons.

The Simple Wild series by KA Tucker is a fiction about a city girl moving the Canadian wilderness. Total romance page turner and kind of fits the bill, I couldn’t put it down!

Hovel in the Hills by Elizabeth West.
couple without much money bought a run down cottage in Wales to grow their own food , and their struggles.

I really enjoyed The stranger in the woods by Michael Finkel and Wild by Cheryl Strayd. I love these kind of stories

Anna McNuffs has written a few but the “pants of perspective” is good more adventure women on her own stuff

Thanks so much. For starters, I have ordered:

Salt Path
Animal vegetable miracle
Moods of future joys
Coasting
Eight feet in the Andes
Wild
Tracks
Hovel in the Hills

@Bing123 Walk in the Woods is one of my favourite all time books, and I adore all Bill Brysons

@LBOCS2 I adored Driving over Lemons

'Narrow Margins', by Marie Browne

It's an account of a family who sold up and moved to an old narrowboat in need of repair. Quite funny in places, and gives a good idea of how difficult and cold/damp it is to get through the winter on a leaky canal boat.

This is great, as are the follow ups!
seconding Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes too

If you'd like it mixed with a good few laughs then Marie Potter and the Campervan of Doom might do.

If you can get over the slightly lumpy writing style, Life Under Glass by mark Nelson, Abigail Alling and Sally Silverstone is a memoir of the Biosphere 2 project. Escape to the wild in a totally different way and really fascinating.

The Way Home by Mark Boyle. How he moved back home to the west of Ireland, built a simple cabin, grows veg and fishes for food and gave up technology living totally off grid.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The great alone by Kristen hannah

I absolutely love The Moon’s our Nearest Neighbour. It’s by Ghillie Basan who now writes cookery books. She upped sticks from Edinburgh to the a tiny isolated cottage in the Cairngorms.

I’ve read it multiple times and I’ll never tire of it.

Ooo I love this genre of books. I know it's not a book but ben Fogel new lives in the wild on channel 5 is amazing for this.

Once Upon an Island by David Conover.

It's a true story about a couple who bought a Canadian island, in the 40s I think. Lots about how they adapted to living away from the mainland, and they built a holiday camp there eventually.

Everything You Ever Taught Me: If you've a lot on your mind, go for a walk... amzn.eu/d/ejSGohh

Fantastic book. PI is a Mumsnetter to boot 🙂

An Aran Keening by Andrew McNeillie, Coconut Chaos by Diana Souhami, White Goats and Black Bees by Donald Grant. Enthusiastically seconding Dervla Murphy. Start with Full Tilt, where she cycles from Ireland to India in 1963.

I love this genre too
i bought a mountain - Thomas Firbank
Island wife - Judy Fairbairn

Narrow dog to Carcasonne by Terry Darlington.
two pensioners and their whippet decide to sail their narrow boat to Carcasonne, despite them not being meant for the sea. quite funny and v interesting. He's done some other books too about boat adventures, though I have read them

Three Against the Wilderness by Eric Collier
probably need to buy 2nd hand
great thread, thanks all!

Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon - SF, but not space opera/aliens SF - just thoughtful, non-historical fiction.

Three Against the Wilderness is of its time, does involve some shooting and trapping