Books like Into the wilderness by Rosanne Bittner
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Rosanne Bittner
★
★
★
★
★
1.0 (1 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for Into the wilderness by Rosanne Bittner are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to Into the wilderness (21 similar books)
Taggish the famed canine hero of Jack London’s classic adventure, The Call of the Wild, is uprooted from a comfortable home in California and forced into brutal sled work in the Yukon, where he must confront survival, the call of wilderness, and the pull of his wolf ancestry.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
After graduating college, journalist Jon Krakauer traces the true story of Christopher McCandless, a young adventurer who abandoned possessions, took the name Alexander Supertramp, and ventured into Alaska’s wilderness, where he met his untimely death.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart examines masculinity from a Christian viewpoint, exploring the spiritual and religious dimensions of male life.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A fast-paced historical romance set in early America, featuring the legendary Natty Bumppo and a love story set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The Deerslayer: A prequel to James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, focusing on the rapid civilizing of New York and the introduction of the hero, Natty Bumppo, to the frontiersmen of the time.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A group of settlers encounters an old trapper on the prairie in 1805, as they push westward over the Great Plains for new land and opportunities in the United States of America, while the country is still being explored.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Zane Grey’s historical western follows Lewis Wetzel’s quest to protect early Ohio settlements and the clash between Moravian missionaries and Native tribes in the late eighteenth‑century frontier.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A thrilling historical spy novel set during the American Revolution, inspired by accusations of venality and featuring a common man wrongly suspected as a spy for the British, who refuses to accept payment for information vital to the Patriot's cause.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Douglas Brinkley’s biography uncovers Theodore Roosevelt’s revolutionary conservation legacy, detailing how he protected 230 million acres of wild America and founded institutions like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In December 1792, Elizabeth Middleton leaves an English estate for a remote New York mountain village, where she encounters Nathaniel Bonner—known to the Mohawk as Between‑Two‑Lives—and fights to educate the village’s children amid conflict with slave owners and her own family.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Jack Cabb, the lone white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn, recounts his life‑changing adventures—from bodyguarding saloon owner Wild Bill Hickock to touring Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and serving as an interpreter for Sitting Bull.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
When Will receives a horse, a key and a map at age twelve, he is sent alone into the Cherokee Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. Over the years he learns to survive, love, and defend a people on the brink of loss.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Martin Cruz Smith’s historical thriller grips readers as it follows a tense, ten‑second moment leading up to the United States’ first atomic bomb test in December 1944, set against the backdrop of New Mexico and Indigenous communities.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A historical novel following Mary Rowlandson as she is captured by Native Americans, faces the hardships of captivity, and must navigate the complex dynamics between English settlers and native peoples.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
Forever a Lady by Barbara MetzgerThe Hunter's Bride by Jill Gregory
Rebecca's Promise by Kevin C. Bales
The Last Song by K. A. Tucker
Wilderness River by Kathleen Eagle
Distant Shores by Gillian Doyle
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!