Re: Backcountry books
Some hunting adjacent non-fiction I've read and enjoyed recently is "A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed" by Douglas H. Chadwick, and "Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History" by Dan Flores.
I don't pack paper books with me, I now use a kindle e-reader. The one I use is the "Paperwhite" which is back-lit and therefore good for reading after dark, it only requires charging every few weeks, it weighs less than a paper book at 7.6 oz., and you can load it with hundreds of books. For me, it's the biggest luxury I take on a backpack hunt.
A conservationist is an environmentalist with a gun.