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Title: River : One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0-375-70182-6 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Motivating book as one eases out of "youth"
Comment: Colin Fletcher was one of my early "guides" into backpacking, and many of his hiking tips still stand up well as I continue to backpack in my 50's.
His trip down the Colorado provides more inspiration for what can be achieved as you get wiser and, oh yes, older, too.
This isn't an "adventure" story in the trite sense, nor a river guide. It's a sharing of a person's thoughts. Fletcher is a different kind of person than most of us, but his musings cause me to think about my own life strategies and outcomes.
-- P.C.
Rating: 4
Summary: A book for the ourdoor type
Comment: This is a good book for those who are genuinely interested in a journey in the wilderness. This is not a book for those who look for thrilling adventures, or those "armchair travelers" who look for commercialized travel books (such as those by Bill Bryson). You can say that the book lacks drama, it is too "plain". To a certain extent I agree with that. As Fletcher says in his book (about the Colorado), it plays "themes and variations". The same can be said about this book, most of the time it flows slowly, but along the way there are reflections, thoughts, observations, etc. It is not as "exciting" as the commercialized writings of Bill Bryson and the like, but you can sense the honesty in Fletcher's writing, that is, he did not take the journey with the goal of writing a book about it, he genuinely wanted to take the journey just for the sake of it.
This is not an Edward Abbey type of book either. Abbey's writing is definitely better. Comparing this book to "Desert Solitaire" is like comparing a amateur's snapshots to Ansel Adams' murals. But, like I said, if you are genuinely an ourdoor and wildness person, especially if you hiked or rafted in the canyon country, you will find much to enjoy in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth the read!!
Comment: I did a whitewater rafting trip last year through Canyonlands NP and this book brought the wonderful memories of that trip - the beauty of the scenery and excitement of the rapids - back to me full force. I LOVED this book. Colin Fletcher's descriptions really bring you to the river and its surrounding beauty. I love how he describes everything, and how he goes off on tangents back to memories of his own life. This book is well worth the read!
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Title: The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0679723064 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Thousand-Mile Summer: In Desert and High Sierra by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0831070463 Publisher: Oak Tree Publications Pub. Date: January, 1964 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins, Vanna Prince, Hannah Hinchman, C. L. Rawlins ISBN: 0375703233 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0679725547 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man from the Cave by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0394406958 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1981 List Price(USD): $64.50 |
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