Book Description
Story of a six month hike along California's mountain backbone from the Mexican to the Oregon border.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1964
Category : California
ISBN :
Story of a six month hike along California's mountain backbone from the Mexican to the Oregon border.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : California
ISBN : 9780679723264
An adventurer who undertook a six-month solitary walk through the terrains of California, records the events of his journey
Author : Andreas M. Cohrs
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : California
ISBN : 9780985380304
Andreas M. Cohrs presents an awesome guide to the less visited regions of California, as well as a glance into what makes up the Golden state and its glittering mentality. Through a chain of serendipitous events, Cohrs gained access to the belongings of the late backpacking icon, Colin Fletcher. Based on the outdoor guru’s original maps, notes, and photos, fifty years later he retraced The Walker’s hitherto untraceable thousand-mile journey along the lengthy spine of California, across the state’s enchanting deserts and over the snow-laden high sierra. With maps accompanying each chapter, drawn by Fletcher’s carto- grapher david Lindroth, more than 100 photos, and with stories from the trail, Cohrs tells a compelling tale of one of the most varied and fascinating regions on our planet. Yet, as the title reveals, California serendipity is more than a hiking guide that lays Fletcher’s original route at your feet for the first time. It takes the reader on a crash course through the state’s early history and its unique nature into finding the only true answer to Fletcher’s concern whether his 1958-trip could ever be repeated. With his narrative travel writing, Cohrs conveys the intimate sensations of what it means to venture upon a four-month trek, unpretentious but up close and affective, and why serendipity will travel with you, rewarding you with the most unexpected encounters, when you take the right turn.
Author : John Muir
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
/MUIR JOHN Originally published in 1916, this book is largely comprised of lightly edited diary entries Muir made during his memorable 1867 trek from Kentucky to Florida. Mixing deft observations of the human condition with lyrical responses to the beauties of the natural world, Muir creates his own stirring "song of the Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0804152446
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Author : John Muir
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the glorification and preservation of this magnificent wilderness. "My First Summer in the Sierra," whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir's regard for the "divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth" of the natural world. A classic of environmental literature, "My First Summer in the Sierra" continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 132400052X
A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered Cape Cod—or merely dipped into an account of its rich history—know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coast—what Finch has always known as the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape’s legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature’s fury: shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch pays tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every experience and observation—both pivotal and quotidian—is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? Finch’s affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished by the Cape’s staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.
Author : Precious McKenzie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 9781681917764
A young Cherokee boy and his family are forced to leave their home when the Indian Removal Act is enforced.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 1970
Category : California
ISBN :