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Title: The Man from the Cave by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0-394-40695-8 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1981 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $64.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Man from the Cave
Comment: My brother-in-law handed me this book one day and said it was worth reading. I had no idea who Colin Fletcher was or what the book was about. I learned a lot about Colin Fletcher, the guru of walking, but even more about a remarkable man who's life would have passed unnoticed had Mr. Fletcher not stumbled on a very remote cave south of Las Vegas Nevada in the late 1960s. This man had come to live in the cave for part of a year and Mr. Fletcher decided to find out who and why a person would choose to live there. Through tough detective work the author develops some leads about when the habitation of the cave occurred and what sort of person lived there. The man in question turns out to be a very colorful prospector and through amazing luck and perseverance Fletcher uncovers his life story. He finds this man to be much like himself. Mr. Fletcher portrays him as both saint and sinner at times, but always makes him human. Quite a good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fletcher's Mystery in a Biography
Comment: In my opinion, this is one of the more fascinating of Colin Fletcher's very enjoyable writings. While pursuing an on-going project of walking the length of the Colorado River, Fletcher discovered a lonely cave in Nevada with evidence that a remarkable individual had called it home sometime in the early part of the century. Fletcher wondered who this could have been, and what had led him to this very out-of-the-way location (as Colin Fletcher himself had been led there). Years of research and discovery, aided by a not inconsequential amount of dumb luck, led Fletcher to the most probable identity of the cave dweller, and he also learned much about American history along the way. This book is a real-life mystery; it is a biography of "Chuckawalla Bill" Simmons and of Colin Fletcher himself; and like all of Colin Fletcher's books, it is also a work of philosopy. Not surprisingly, the "Man From the Cave" proves to be a man very much like Colin Fletcher himself.
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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: 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: River : One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0375701826 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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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: The Winds of Mara by Colin Fletcher ISBN: 0394470915 Publisher: Random House (T) Pub. Date: 01 January, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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