This is kinda an odd question but what are some good books that deal with the brutality of nature. I have pick related and was wondering if there is much else like it? A friend suggested the Sagas of Icelanders but I would have to read a translation.
>>8134025
Give Butcher's Crossing a shot.
You might like reading nonfiction about the polar expeditions too. Nature doesn't get much more brutal than Antarctica.
>>8134025
Don't fall for the memes about reading in translation, it's perfectly fine if you aren't an autist.
Of course, it's worth researching which translations are best for a given work.
obviously Moby Dick
The short story "The Open Boat" by Stephan Crane is good. Anything written during the naturalism movement really. Also I'm gonna go with an unoriginal answer and say The Old Man and the Sea.
>>8134029
Butcher's Crossing is great. I like it better than Stoner.
In the Heart of the Sea
Into Thin Air
Isaac's Storm
and obviously The Old Man and the Sea.
>>8134141
you're welcome friend!
>>8134029
This, Ernest Shackleton's South is exactly what you want, OP
I stumped how in any way that would be "odd" ...
>>8134025
Jean Giono's Hill
To Build a Fire by Jack London
>>8135917
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
