Some of my favourite outdoor writing isn't easy to find elsewhere – and if it is, not in handy phone-readable format for those stray moments in dentists' waiting rooms or when queueing for the bus. I've assembled it here both for my own reference and as quick links to add to articles of my own. At the same time, it will serve as a short anthology aimed at causing embarrassment to all us outdoor writers of the present day.
Some that I haven't added in yet include Sir Gawain's journey to the Green Chapel and Leslie Stephen's daughter Virginia Woolf writing up a sunset on her own account. Works still in copyright are not included: but see my Classic Mountain Literature page.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Description of Moss Force waterfall, Newlands Valley, 1802


Dorothy Wordsworth
The first recorded ascent of Scafell Pike in October 1818


Leslie Stephen
Sunset on Mont Blanc, part of Chapter XI from 'The Playground of Europe' (1871)


Thomas Hardy
The fictitious Egdon Heath, in Dorset, makes up Chapter I of 'Return of the Native' (1878)