📚 Backpacking

Carrying the camp on the back: routes, loads, and the self-sufficient mile.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject backpacking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	50 hikes in Vermont	Bob Lindemann	1974	14
	Backpacking	R. C. Rethmel	1965	12
	Yosemite	Jeffrey P. Schaffer	1985	8
	Lipsmackin' Backpackin'	Christine Conners	2000	7
	Backpacking, one step at a time	Harvey Manning	1972	6
	Hiking and backpacking trails of Texas	Mildred J. Little	1981	6
	The backpacker's handbook	Chris Townsend	1991	6
	50 Hikes in Central Florida	Sandra Friend	2002	6
	Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike Planner	David Lauterborn	2005	6
	Backpacker tourism	Kevin Hannam	2007	6
	Almost somewhere	Suzanne Roberts	2012	6
	Wilderness medicine	William W. Forgey	1979	5
	Backpacking and Trekking in Peru and Bolivia	Hilary Bradt	1980	5
	Backcountry first aid and extended care	Buck Tilton	1993	5
	World Stompers	Brad Olsen	1996	5
	Trail Tested	Justin Lichter	2013	5
	Home in Your Pack	Bradford Angier	1965	4
	The complete walker	Colin Fletcher	1968	4
	The high adventure of Eric Ryback	Eric Ryback	1971	4
	The well-fed backpacker	June Fleming	1976	4
	Sierra North	Thomas Winnett	1976	4
	Desert hiking	Dave Ganci	1983	4
	The Trinity Alps	Luther Linkhart	1983	4
	The complete guide to walks & trails in Southern Africa	Jaynee Levy	1988	4
	The trail walking handbook	Clive Tully	1994	4
	50 hikes in Ohio	Ralph Ramey	1997	4
	The Outward Bound Backpacker's Handbook	Glenn Randall	1999	4
	A fork in the trail	Laurie Ann March	2007	4
	Backcountry camping	Bill Riviere	1971	3
	The backpacker's handbook	Derrick Booth	1972	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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