The Colin Fletcher books are great: The Thousand Mile Summer, the Man Who Walked Through Time...and the Compleat Walker,

For more fun about hiking and having adventures on the trail, read Clarence King's Mountaineering in the SIerra Nevada, or Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.

There are lots of ways to do this hobby. Part of the fun is figuring out which way works best for you.
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