Book Recommendations From The ATE Community!

16 Dec

With Winter right around the corner, we wanted to share some book recommendations from the All The Elements community. Whether you're looking for a book to dive into over the holidays or need a last minute gift here are 17 books that our community think you'll love!

Books Written by Our Incredible Community Members:

The cover of The Autistic Guide to Adventure which shows adventurers of all kinds against a pink background

The Autistic Guide To Adventure: Active Pursuits from Archery to Wild Swimming for Tweens and Teens.

Written by Allie Mason

Join Allie as she introduces activities ranging from archery to stargazing, sailing to fossil hunting, snorkeling to nature-writing – and so much more. Each easily digestible factsheet comes with a short introduction, a summary of the sensory experiences involved, suggestions on approaching activities for when you’re just getting started, as well as a handy budgeting system.

With personal anecdotes and interviews with awesome autistic athletes, this book will give you the support you need to take on the great outdoors.

Finding your Feet: The how-to guide to hiking and adventuring.

Written by Rhiane Fatinikun (Founder of Black Girls Hike)

Finding Your Feet is Rhiane's essential guide to exploring the British countryside for Black women and women who often feel unsafe in remote places, offering practical tips, favourite walks and routes from across the UK, showcasing the best of nature's beauty.

Including topics such as:

Choosing the right kit
Understanding a paper map, navigating and what to do if you get lost
Favourite British walks with handy maps and full descriptions of the routes

The cover of Radical Rest which shows a peaceful blue mountain and lake scene

Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures.

Written by Evie Muir (Founder of Peaks of Colour)

Evie shares: 'Radical Rest' documents my own journey of activist burnout, embodied healing, movement building, hope and imagination through a Black Feminist, abolitionist, nature allied and anti-capitalist lens.

Throughout the book I speak with those who are disproportionately impacted by, and working in resistance to, burnout: Black, queer, disabled activists of colour. Together, we move through the rage, grief, anxiety and exhaustion of burnout towards hope, joy, abundance and, ultimately, rest, advocating for a future where we exist in community, with our bodies, one another and the natural world.

Darkling.

Written by Sheree Mack

Sheree Mack returns to poetry to explore how a Black woman can survive and thrive in a White Supremacy culture. Darkling is a book about black women, black bodies, black lives and black deaths – like Renisha McBride, Sarah Reed, and Saartjie Baartman (exhibited naked in London in 1810 as the Hottentot Venus). It’s a history of the enslaved, runaways and lynch-mobs, police violence, the Scarman Report and Black Lives Matter, censorship, colour-blind liberalism and white racism. It’s a book of layers, a palimpsest through which racism and violence always shows through in the end. But Darkling is also a book about ecology and memory, bodies and grief, nature and healing, about learning how to be within the landscape and the sea, in order to be reconnect with others and self with joy.

The cover of Black Sheep which shows a photo of Sabrina as a child

Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope.

Written by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys (Co-founder of Black Trail Runners)

An autobiographical reflection written by award-winning businesswoman, ultrarunner, social justice activist, recovering alcoholic Sabrina Pace-Humphreys. Sharing stories from her life growing up a mixed-raced woman in a rural town. About how running saved her life; and ultimately about how someone can not only survive but thrive in spite of their past.

Books recommended by the All The Elements Community:

These books were recommended through our community WhatsApp Chat, covering a range of different themes and topics. Let us know if you give them a read!