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Books read between early June and early August. I'll expand commentary later this week.
1. THE HARD WAY. Jenkins, Mark. Personal essays about travelling, trekking and the outdoors. The author is primarily a mountain climber.
2. THE PLAGUE. Camus, Albert.
3. BACKWOODS ETHICS. Waterman, Guy and Laura. The most boring book ever about Leave No Trace hiking and camping. Still relevant, but it ha ssince been written about in a much more interesting manner. Read THE COMPLETE WALKER by Colin Fletcher (may God rest his wandering soul) instead.
4. THE MAN FROM THE CAVE. Fletcher, Colin. Hard to put down. Read this in three days. Fletcher narrates his decade-long quest to discover the identity and origins of a man who left his camp and some belongings in a desert cave near Las Vegas in the nineteen tens when Fletcher discovered it on a solitary trek through the same area in the mid 'sixties. Definitely recommended.
5. THE LAST SEASON. Blehm, Eric.
6. THE BEAN TREES. Kingsolver, Barbara. Fiction. Her first novel.
7. UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS. Roiphe, Katie.
8. INTO THE WILD. Krakauer, Jon. A 2nd read for me.
