Favourite Outdoor Reads for When You're Indoors
For many of us spending more time indoors and longing for outdoors, a great solace and satisfaction can come from our imaginations and the stories and words that fuel them.
If you are missing being by the sea a fantastic book to turn to is Moby Dick. It’s a longer read, but an adventure in itself. It’s a fascinating view into a different time, transporting you onto the open ocean and into an all to different life and experience, with some of the most awe inspiring descriptions of the ocean and its majesty.
A delightfully wonderful book about an animal you perhaps might have never considered reading about before is Reindeer: An Arctic Life. It’s a wonderfully enjoyable read, with heartwarming and almost unbelievable anecdotes about these majestic and comforting creatures. A book very much to life your spirits and make you smile.
It’s almost always possible to look up, and looking up into the night sky can be wondrous. Kelsey Oseid’s What We See In the Stars is a beautifully illustrated guide to the magic, myth and science of our infinite above. A great treat to delve into and discover.
Isolation and survival, two themes very much explored in Robinson Crusoe. It’s a read to be savoured, and maybe even more so during a time when many of us are stranded away from loved ones. As individual readers we fall in step with Robinson through his trails, successes and setbacks in a world so distant from the one he’s known. We root for him, learn from him and meditate alongside him on the shape and nature of our lives.
It’s hard not to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and ever be able to pass an ornate wardrobe again without the faintest trace of longing and the magic of ‘What if...?’ The idea that something so ordinary-seeming in our homes can deliver us into such adventure is forever tantalising. A book can often be a great substitute for a wardrobe!
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