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Language English Originally published 1964 Genre Non-fiction Country United States of America | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publication date 1964 Subject Backpacking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title The Thousand Mile Summer: in desert and high sierra Publishers Howell-North Books, Berkeley Similar Works by Colin Fletcher, Non-fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Thousand Mile Summer by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierra. The book was first published in 1964.
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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan--or man to create both.
References
The Thousand-Mile Summer Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA