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Panel 28

<most pot hole filling [reformatting, citation completion] welcome>

REFERENCES
    References to whitewater are now in rec.boats.paddle
    Climbing references will shortly be moved to rec.climbing

This is not intended as a comprehensive list.
What do you want?  Hand holding in the wilderness?  Part of the
adventure is in the the self-discovery.  This is just a start.

Try a library.

For instance, climbing and backpacking is the 796.5[012] section (Dewey)
or the G 505-510 and GV 190-200 in the Library of Congress section (how do
I know that? I've spent a lot of time there).  You can find other topics in
similar areas.  Are you familiar with Books-in-Print?
Just look.
You can't learn all wisdom from a book, but think of a book
as containing the "syntax" of wisdom.  In the past, none of these books
existed, so their contents get better thru time.

BOOKS, Dave Roberts published a fine review of beginning mountaineering
books in the 1971 Ascent.  While those books were obviously dated, the
qualities of the review (all bad) were good.  Roberts characterized
"Nine Deadly Sins:"
    Sin of anachronism
    Sin of atavism
    Sin of provincialism
    Sin of over-specificity
    Sin of technique for it's own sake
    Sin of equipment freaking
    Sin of dullness
    Sin of moral didacticism
    Sin of ignorance
Considering these when getting ANY book.

How-to-get started
Backpacking:

%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Complete Walker
%X Get the most current version available (III or IV).
%X This book unlike most books tries to convey the feeling.

Also try (for enjoyment):
%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Thousand Mile Summer
%X Realize that trip was done in 1958 before the outdoor fad.
Not a how-to book.

%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher
%D 1988
%X It is suggested that one read Robert Persig's
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" first.
%X Subtle.

%A H. Manning
%T Backpacking One Step at a Time
%I   [Not Mountaineers]
%C ???
%K children section,
%X Get current (Green?) edition.
%X Enjoyable cartoons by Bob Cram.
%X More enjoyable Bob Cram cartoons.

%A John Hart
%T Walking Softly in the Wilderness
%I Sierra Club Books
%C San Francisco, CA
%X Can't out-Fletcher Fletcher, but comes close
%X First useful reference on minimum impact ideas

%A Bruce Hampton
%A David Cole
%T Soft Paths - How to enjoy the wilderness without harming it
%I Stackpole Books
%C Harrisburg, PA  800-READ-NOW
%D 1988

Food and Cooking

%A Yvonne Prater
%A Ruth Dyar Mendenhall
%T Gorp, Glop and Glue Stew: Favorite Foods from 165 outdoor experts
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%X Highly recommended by Backpacker

%E Sukey Richards
%E Donna Orr
%E Claudia Lindholm, eds.
%T NOLS Cookery
%I NOLS Publications
%C Lander, WY
%D 1988
%X Excellent discussion of nutrition, bulk foods, and rationing

%A Stephen Herrero
%T Bear Attacks - Their Causes and Avoidance
%I Lyons & Burford
%C NY
%D 1985
%X The Table of Contents:
1) Grizzly Bear Attacks
2) Sudden Encounters with Grizzlies
3) Provoked Attacks
4) The Dangers of Garbage and Habituation
5) Other Attacks
6) Aggression without Injury
7) The Tolerant Black Bear
8) The Predaceous Black Bear
9) Avoiding Encounters
10) Characteristics of Bears
11) The Evolution of Bears
12) Bear Foods and Location
13) Signs of Bear Activity
14) Learning and Instinct
15) Aggression and Submission
16) Bears and People in Rural and Remote Areas
17) Bear Management

Climbing Rock
This section moved to rec.climbing FAQ.


%A James Wilkerson, M.D. Ed.
%T Medicine for Mountaineering, 3rd ed.
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 1985
%X TAKE A FIRST AID CLASS.

%A James A. Wilkerson, MD Ed.
%A Cameron C. Bangs, MD
%A John S. Hayward, PhD
%T Hypothermia, Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 1986

%A Peter Steele
%T Far From Help!  Backcountry Medical Care
%I Cloudcap
%C Box 27344, Seattle, 1991
%X similar to "Medical handbook for mountaineers" published by Constable in UK.

Orienteering

%A Bjorn Kellstrom
%T Be Expert in Map and Compass
%I Charles Scribner's Sons
%C New York, NY
%D 1976
%X Oldy but goody; best intro to Silva system
%X Available from any Boy Scout merchan. dist.

%A W. S. Kals
%T Land Navigation Handbook
%I Sierra Club Books
%C San Francisco, CA
%D 1983
%X Learn how to use that altimeter, understand declination
%X Excellent for hints and unconventional thinking

Any winter travel -- any person who ignores this critical subject deserves
to become loam.

%A Ron Perla
%A Martinelli
%T Avalanche Handbook
%I USDA
%X This is as detailed as it gets.
%X Inexpensive.

%A Ed LaChapelle
%T ABC of Avalanche Safety, 2nd ed.[?]
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 1985, 1978, 1961
%X $5.95

Some notoriously BAD books as well: Books to avoid:
Books by Bridge, Casewit, Ullman, Bastille, Kingsley.
Avoid wasting your time, but they offer opportunities to critique.
Anything authored by Curtis Casewit.
James Ramsey Ullman (was said, "He's in the penality box") Ullman
clearly wrote the the best known, most popular works pre-1970.
Ullman was invited on the '63 Everest expedition as a token gesture
to raise funds from a publishing company:
The Age of Mountaineering, Americans on Everest, The White Tower (bad),
Straight Up (John Harlin, II)
Avoid the Icecraft book by Norman Kingsley.
Some works by Jeremy Bernstein.  His writing is fair.

Dave Roberts also reviewed the basic form of all climbing
autobiographies.  They largely all read the same.  To quote Roberts in
the 1974 Ascent:
  Alas, no mountain climber has yet written a good autobiography. ...
Climbing autobiographies are written, usually by men (and an occasional
woman) who are still in the thick of it, ... In short, too close to their
subject to see it well.  Another basic flaw stems from the form which every
autobiographer seems to chose whether out of habit, imitation, or simple
laziness.  Namely, a chronological recipe of major climbs and
expeditions.  V.S. Pritchett, the Engish writer who waited until his
late 60's to to begin his own autobiography, warned in a lecture once that
"chronology is the death of a vast amount of autobiography."  The writer,
he argued, ought to view what he is doing as "conducting a search," not
"traipsing down chronology." ...
  So impersonal, in fact, are most climbing autobiographies, that one could
well paste together from them a kind of Standard Life, and thus do away
with the need for writing any further ones: Start with the Anemic Childhood...
Proceed with Early Poverty and Crazy Stunts.  ...Interrupted by --
First Encounter with Death...
  Fame.  (At last.)  And with it, the first strange tones of public modesty.
Fused with the discovery of an inner invincibility. ...
Somewhere about here, life intrudes in the form of Marriage -- to a
hitherto-unmentioned, henceforth hazy female. ...
  On to other things.  There are, alas, too few new worlds to conquer, and
fame and marriage have taken their toll.  The climber does well to undergo,
at this point, a Deeper Experience in the mountains....
  And at last, a Summing Up?

So cynical?  So bad?  Roberts takes six pages and makes a very strong case.
His arguments touch every major climbing book to that point, and these
generalize to all subsequent books.  He regards Patey's and Menlove Edward's
book "Samson" as perhaps the two best books written.  The latter is
heavy stuff (very much like Alan Turing).  Anyways, we'll say no more
and let you discover the above for yourself (as it should be in a wilderness).

%A Heinrich Harrer
%T Seven Years in Tibet

%A David Roberts
%T Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
%X About the unsuccessful attempt by Roberts and Don Jensen (Jensen pack
and the Jensen Bombshelter Tent) to climb Mt. Debroah in Alaska.  Interesting
introspective reading.

%A David Roberts
%T Great Expedition Hoaxes

%A David Roberts
%T Moments of Doubt
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 1986
%X Anthology of short non-fiction articles.
%X Roberts made part of his living (after leaving mathematics)
by outdoor instruction and as an English prof in the NE.  During this
time he wrote for Outside Magazine.  This volume is a collection of
Outside articles and other works.  The title derives from a very
powerful article about the loss of two very close friends
(one in Boulder and the other in Alaska [Huntington]).  The chapters
"Rafting by the BBC" and "Burnout in the Maze" [for any outdoor ed
types] were pleasant surprises.  Unfortunately, some of Robert's most
important and controversial articles on "The Failure" of American
women's expeditions are included.  Other subjects include people:
Messner, Roskelly, and others.  A cute article on bouldering.

%A K. Brower: The Starship and the Canoe
Robin xxx: The [Voyage of the] Dove

%A Felice Benuzzi
%T No Picnic on Mt. Kenya
%X The real account of two Italian POWs during WWII who escaped after
fashioning climbing gear from kitchen utensils.  They got up the
3rd summit.  All the more interesting because it happened.

%A Patrick McManus
%T They Shoot canoes, don't they?
%T the grasshopper trap
%T A fine and pleasant misery
%T watchagot stew" - with recipes, cowritten by his sister
%T kid camping from Aye! to Z"
5 of about eight books. All stories (except those in the last two
books) are short pieces which appeared
in Field+Stream or Outdoor Life's "The Last Laugh" column.

%A GJF Dutton
%T The Ridiculous Mountains

%A Peter Steele
%T Doctor on Everest
%I Hodder & Stoughton
%D 1972
%X It's an account of being the doctor on the 1971 Everest
expedition.  It was an international expedition that attempted
both the West Ridge, and the South West Face, and unfortunately
ended in acrimony.  Anyway, I think it's a good book, partly
because it's a lot more human than the "Hard men, hanging by a
hair of Nanga Parbat" of Chris Bonnington et al.

Popular with many readers and requiring a perverse sense of reality
are the writings of the late Edward Abbey best known for

%A Edward Abbey
%T Desert Solitaire
%D 1968

%A Edward Abbey
%T The Monkey Wrench Gang
%D 1975
%X one of the first eco-rebellion novels

and a slew of short collections and novels.  Abbey defies simple
characterization, he would want it that way.
    "Civilization is the kid with the Molotov cocktail,
    culture is the LA cop or Soviet Tank which guns him down."
                    --St. Ed, DS
            as Rod Nash knows as my personal favorite.

Less well known is Farley Mowat.  Numerous texts.

%A Farley Mowat -_The Top of the World trilogy (I think that's the title)
                Vol I, _Tundra_ (the exploration of the NW Territories)
                Vol II, _Ordeal by Ice_(search for the NW Passage)
                Vol III, _The Polar Passion_ (race for the North Pole)
        These are collections of original sources (extracts from expedition
        logs, etc.) with commentary by Mowat.  The most complete history
      I've personally read.
Mowat - _The People of the Deer_
        A heart_breaking account of the modern fate of the inland tribes
        of the Northwest Territories. He also wrote a book about the modern
        Inuit of Siberia.  Title escapes me.

Photography
most any book by Ansel Adams
There are other authors.  Look and shoot.  Trial and error.

HISTORY and THINKING:

%A Roderick Nash
%T Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd. ed.
%I Yale U. Press

%E Roderick Nash, ed.
%T American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, 3rd
%I McGraw-Hill
%D 1990
%X Interested in deep ecology, overpopulation, the sportsman's role, more?
%X Nash includes selections that sometimes present alternative views to his
%X ~1750 until present

%A Roderick Nash
%T The Rights of Nature
%I U. Wisc. Press
%C Madison, WI
%D 1988

%A Joseph Sax
%Z UC Berkeley, Law School
%T Mountain without Handrails
%D 1980
%X Excellent reflections on wilderness and national parks.

%A Aldo Leopold
%T The Sand County Almanac

%A David Ehenfeld
%T The Arrogance of Humanism
%I Oxford U. Press
%C Oxford
%D 1978

%A Laura Waterman
%A Guy Waterman
%T Forest And Crag
%I AMC Books
%C Boston, MA
%X Subtitle: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains
Scrupulously researched (100+ pages of references),
Fascinating and enormously entertaining

Any of John Muir's books

%A H. D. Thoreau
%T Walden

%A Lao Tsu
%T Tao Te Ching

%A Terry and Renny Russell
%T On the Loose
%I Sierra Club / Ballentine Books
%D 1965
%X May be out-of-print, check used bookstores
%X Excellent photos of pre-dam Glen Canyon, powerful prose and quotations

%A Chris Jones
%T Climbing in North America
%I Univ. of CA Press.
%C Berkeley, CA
%D 1976
%X A good history.  Has taken some criticism, but many areas are minor.

%A Richard Mitchell
%Z OSU
%T The Mountain Experience:
Psychology and Sociology of Adventure
%I Univ. of Chicago Press
%C Chicago, IL
%D 1983

%A Kathleen Meyer
%T How to Shit in the Woods
%I Ten Speed Press
%O ISBN:0-89815-319-0

Caving:
_On Rope_
by Allen Padgett and Bruce Smith
available at the
National Speleological Society
Dept. 19
Cave Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35810
[phone]
or from
Speleobooks
PO Box 10
Schoharie, NY 12157
[phone]

Equipment may be ordered from (among a number of other places, including REI):
Bob & Bob
PO Box 441-N
Lewisburg, WV 24901
[phone]

_The Caves Beyond_, Lawrence and Brucker, Zephyrus Press (may be out of print)
The Floyd Collins Crystal Cave Expedition in the 1950's.

_The Longest Cave_, Brucker and Watson, Knopf, 1976
The exploration of Flint Ridge after the above expedition, and its connection
to Mammoth Cave in 1972.

_Carlsbad, Caves and a Camera_, Nymeyer, Zephyrus Press, 1978
Early (1930-1940) explorations and early cave photos by the author and his
friends.  Very nice book--give you the flavor of what it must have been like
back then to go caving when the sport/hobby/science was in its infancy.

Well, here's a few reviews, just be careful with that axe, Eugene...

Pat O'Connell
NSS 13878RL

%A Joe Back
%T Horses, Hitches & Rocky Trails

%A John McPhee
%T Coming to the Country
%T The Control of Nature
%T Basin and Range
%T Conversations with the Archdruid

Peter Freuchen - _The Book of the Eskimo_
        Freuchen was a trading post factor in the Hudsons Bay area around
        the turn of the century.  He 'went native', marrying an Inuit, and
        describes their culture intimately.  The account is by turns delightful
        and horrifying.  You don't want to be an Eskimo.

Joe McGuiness (sp?) - _Going to Extremes_

        Two very different looks at modern Alaska by two very different
        writers.  Each excellent in its' own way.

Adolph Murie - _The Wolves of Mt. McKinley_

        A deep look at the natural environment of the Great Land, and a
        wonderful adventure story, disguised as a scientific report. Murie
        also has a couple of other books worth reading, and his wife wrote
      one called _Two in the Far North_ about raising a family in the
        arctic wilderness.

And here are a few about the Antarctic:

Cherry-Gerard - _The Worst Journey in the World_
        They decided to travel on foot through the Antarctic winter to visit
        an Emperor penguin colony..

Alfred Lansing - _Endurance_
        Don't miss this one.  An expedition under Shacklton attempted to
        cross the Ice from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole.
        Their ship was caught in the ice and crushed, stranding them in the
        Earth's most hostile environment, thousands of miles from any
        possible help.  There has probably never been a greater survival
        story.

Douglas Mawson - _The Home of the Blizzard_
        The official account of the Mawson expedition.  This was, I believe,
        the first Australian Antarctic Expedition.  At one point Mawson was
        dog-sledding two hundred miles from base when a crevasse swallowed
        the sled with all the food and one of his two companions.  The
        sequel was as dramatic as the Scott disaster, and should have been
      as famous; but the two happened at the same time, so this one sort
        of dropped out of history...
(an Australian author. Alzheimer's again..) - _Mawson's Will_
        A modern retelling of the Mawson story.  Probably easier to find
        than the former.  Also draws on private diaries, etc., and is not
        obligated to maintain a Victorian Stiff Upper Lip, so it is better
        reading.
Chuck Smythe

John Maxtone-Graham, _Safe_Return_Doubtful_
  A history of Arctic/Antarctic exploration
  (Title taken from supposed newspaper ad taken out in an English paper
  by Shackleton recruiting for an Antarctic expedition.)

Pierre Berton, _The_Arctic_Grail_
  A history of exploration of the Northwest Passage

Pierre Berton, _The_Klondike_Fever_
  Story of the 1898 Alaskan/Yukon gold rush

Axcell, Claudia et al
_Simple_Foods_for_the_Pack_
(The Sierra Club Guide to Delicious Natural Foods for the Trail)
Sierra Club Books
ISBN 0-87156-757-1

%A Peter Freuchen
%T My Life in Greenland

Mark Holbrook

%A Rachel Carson
%T Silent Spring
%D 1962?
%X THE great book.

Try other books, carriable on topics such as geology,
field biology, etc.

%A Steven K. Roberts
%T Computing Across America
%O [e-mail]

%T Cross-Country Skiing by Gillette, and Dostal
%T Mountain Skiing by Bein [Dated]
various books by Tejada-Flores

Prater's book Snowshoeing, 3rd ed.

Loren Eisely's "The Unexpected Universe"
"The Immense Journey" or "The Invisible Pyramid"
All have shining moments of insight and the writing is beautifully lyrical.

Fly Fishing:

%A Leo Wolfinger, III (Sheridan Anderson)
%T The Curtis Creek Manifesto

Lastly:

  "Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any sport that requires you to
  change clothes.  Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers always
  wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly
  spring up in the middle of a machine room."

from: "Real programmers don't write specs" in
%A George S. Almasi
%A Allan Gottlieb
%T Highly Parallel Computing
%I Benjamin/Cummings division of Addison Wesley Inc.
%D 1989
%K ISBN # 0-8053-0177-1, book, text, Ultracomputer, grecommended,
%$ $36.95
%X This is a kinda neat book.  There are special net
antecdotes which makes this interesting.
What does this have to do with parallel computing?  Everything.  Get the
book to find out why.

<END CONSTRUCTION ZONE>

Sources: [try local stores, else:]
Michael Chessler Books, Denver, CO
[phone]
The Mountaineers, Seattle, WA
[phone]
Sierra Club Books/Random House
[phone]

TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:

28/ References (written)            <* THIS PANEL *>
1/ DISCLAIMER
2/ Ethics
3/ Learning I
4/ learning II (lists, "Ten Essentials," Chouinard comments)
5/ Summary of past topics
6/ Non-wisdom: fire-arms topic circular discussion
7/ Phone / address lists
8/ Fletcher's Law of Inverse Appreciation and advice
9/ Water Filter wisdom
10/ Words from Rachel Carson
11/ Snake bite
12/ Netiquette
13/ Questions on conditions and travel
14/ Dedication to Aldo Leopold
15/ Leopold's lot.
16/ Morbid Backcountry
17/ Information about bears
18/ Poison ivy, frequently ask, under question
19/ Lyme disease, frequently ask, under question
20/ "Telling questions" backcountry Turing test (under construction)
21/ AMS
22/ Words from Foreman and Hayduke
23/ A bit of song (like camp songs)
24/ What is natural?
25/ A romantic notion of high-tech employment
26/ Other news groups of related interest, networking
27/ Films/cinema references

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Subject: backcountry reading
Status: R

  Eugene, after seeing the discussion on backcountry reading on
rec.backcountry, I decided to send you my list accumulated from
the newsgroup over the last few years.  Thought you might be interested
for your FAQ panel 28.  It is a little long so edit at will.

Rgds,
John McCollum

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================================================================================
Abbey, Edward     "Desert Solitare",
                  "Down the River",
                  "The Monkey Wrench Gang"
                  "Journey Home"
                  "The Brave Cowboy"
                  "Hayduke Lives"  (and other 'Hayduke' novels)
                  "Black Sun"
                  Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow
                  Univ. of Mont. 1985 Commencement address
                  in One Live at A Time Please
               ......numerous others

Bass, Rick         "Days of Heaven"
                   ("The Best American Short Stories 1992") This
                   story allegorically raises an essential dilemma of the
                   modern wilderness lover:  How do I help protect a wilderness
                   without simultaneously reducing my access to it?
                   [e-mail] (Donald Dovey)

Berton, Pierre   "The Artic Grail"   (Northwest Passage exploration)
                 "The Klondike Fever"   (1898 Alaskan/Yukon gold rush)
                  "The Whitewater Sourcebook" , Menasha River press

Brook, Paul       "The House of LIfe" , life and writing of Rachel Carson

Brower, Kenneth   "The Starship and the Canoe", Harper and Row 1978

Brown, Tom      "Field Guide to Wilderness Survival",
                  "Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking"
                  "Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants"
                  "The Tracker",
                  "The Search"
                  "The Vision"
                  "The Quest"

Brucker, Roger and Watson, Richard
                  "The Longest Cave"  (caving,cave)

Brucker, Roger    "Trapped"   (caving,cave)


Caras, Roger      "Monarch of Deadman Bay; the life and death of
                            a Kodiak bear "
                  The Custer wolf
                  Animals in their places: tales from the natural world
                  Creatures of the night
                  Dangerous to man: the definitive story of wildlife's
                     reputed danger
                  Last chance on earth; a requiem for wildlife
                  Mara Simba : the African lion
                  North American mammals; fur-bearing animals fo the
                     United States
                  Source of the thunder; the biography of a California condor
                  The venomous animals
                  The Forest

        (Read  "The Monarch of Deadmans Cove" for an increadible account
        of a ledgendary great Kodiak Bear who ranged in the Deadmans Cove
        area for 16-18 years . You won't want to put it down.. )

Carson, Rachel    "Silent Spring"

Cole, David       "Soft Paths"     Pub; Stackpole Books

Dahl, Roald (sic) "The Best of Roald Dahl"
                  If you need some good campfire stories, I would warmly
                  recommend 'The best of Roald Dahl', a collection of his
                  best stories, all very suitable for a campfire.
                   From: [e-mail] (Liefting Wouter)

Denman, Earl;     "Alone to Everest"

DuFresne, Jim     "Tramping in New Zealand"  Pub;Lonely Planet Publications

Ehenfeld          "The Arrogance of Humanism"  is good for this discussion.
                   clearly one of the most humanistic writers I have recent in
                   the past year. quote by Eugene Miya

Eisley, Loren     "The Unexpected Universe"
                  "The Immense Journey"
                  "The Invisible Pyramid"
                    All have shining moments of insight and the writing is
                    beautifully lyrical.

Elder, Laurin     "And I Alone Survived"
                    about surviving a plane crash near
                    at 13K+ ft then hiking down

Fletcher, Colin   "The 1000 Mile Summer"
                  "Secret Worlds"
                  "The Complete Walker 1 - n"

Frost, Robert;    "The Gift Outright"
                  "Once by the Pacific"

Gatty, Harold     "Nature is Your Guide"
                   (or How to Find Your Way on Land and Sea)

Gontran de Poncins   "Kabloona"  (life with the Inuit's in the 1930's)

Hemingway, Earnest   "the Last Good Country"
                     "Big Two-Hearted River"

Hillerman, Tony     "A Thief of Time"
                    "The Dark Wind"

Hutchinson, Derek   "Sea Kayaking"   pub. Globe Pequot Press, 1985

Kane, Joe           "Running the Amazon"

Latimer, Carole     "Wilderness Cuisine"    food, cooking, menus,  ..

Leopold, Aldo;    "Sand County Almanac"
Leopold, Aldo:    "For Earth's Sake; The Life and times of David Brower"
                  "Round River" .. includes
                   long stretches from Leopold's journals of wilderness canoe
                   trips into the Quetico, and to the delta of the Colorado
                   before
                  the BLM destroyed it to make Lake Mead....
                   also the original volume containing Leopold's seminal
                   essays on the "land ethic";

Maclean, Norman   "A River Runs Through It"

Manes, Christopher  "Green Rage"  (Earth First!, environmental civil
                    disobediance)

Mason, Bill        movies now on video:
                    Song of the Paddle,
                    Path of the Paddle,

McHugh, Gretchen   "The Hungry Hiker's Guide to Good Food (?)"
                    food,cooking, menus

McMannis, Pat      "The Grasshopper Trap"
                   "They Don't Shoot Canoes, Do They?"  campfire reading
                     Waterwalker.

McPhee;           "Coming into the Country"

McPhee, John;     "The Pine Barrens"
McPhee, John;     "Survival of Bark Canoe"
McPhee, John:     "Encounters with the Archdruid"
                  "Rising Up From the Plains", geology of Absarokas,YellostoneNP

Meyer,            "How to S**t in the woods"

Moore, J.R.       "Nahani Trailhead"
                   ....about a couple who built and lived in a cabin in
                   NWT (NorthWest Territory) very close to YT (Yukon Terr).

Mowat, Farley     "Never Cry Wolf"

Nash, Rod;        "Wilderness and the American Mind"

Porter, Gene Stratton   "The Girl of the Linberlost"
                        "The Harvester"

Randall, Glenn     "Cold Comfort"
                    [e-mail] (Ron Miller)   I re-read it every Fall
                    in preparation for winter adventures.

Russel, Charlie    cowboy stories, campfire reading

Sax, Joseph        "Mountains without handrails"

Scholly?, Dan     "Guardians of Yellowstone"  Morrow Publishing
                  Yellowstone Chief Ranger.
              It deals largely with the fires that engulfed Yellowstone over
              the past few years, but he also tells stories about bear attacks,
              monkeywrenching, tourons (although he doesn't use the word),
              and the backcountry rangers.

Service, Robert;  "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
                  "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"

Sevareid, Eric     "Canoeing With the Cree"

Simpson, Joe:     "Touching the Void"

Stahlquist, Jim   "Colorado Whitewater"

Steger, Will       "North to the Pole"
                  "Crossing Antartica"

Sumner, Louise    "Sew and Repair Your Outdoor Gear", The Mountaineers,1988.
            This 144 page softcover book is packed with information specific to
         designing, constructing, and maintaining hiking equipment and clothing.

Swift, Robert     "Treking in Nepal" ,Sierra Club, health/welfare in Nepal

Twain, Mark;      "Roughing It"

Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Ranulph    "Living Dangerously"
                   a British adventurer with the extraordinary name
                   An interesting book, including accounts of
                  parachuting onto a glacier, ascending the Nile by hovercraft,
                  several polar expeditions, a N/S traverse of British Columbia
                  by water, and the circumnavigation of the Earth, pole to pole.
                  He seems to have managed to live in the 20th century the kind
                  of life one might imagine for a European explorer of the 19th.

Unsworth, Walt;     "Everest: A Mountain History"

Vaughan, Norman D   "With Byrd at the Bottom of the World"

Waterman, Guy & laura      "Forest and Crag" (C&H in Northeast),
                           "Wilderness Ethics"

Wheat, Doug          "The Floaters guide to Colorado"

Wirth, Bob           "Open Boat Canoeing"

Wise, Ken C.         "Cruise of the Blue Flujin"  Wilderness Adventure Books,
                      1987

Wilkerson,Bangs,Hayward    "Hypothermia, Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries"
                           "Medicine for Mountaineering"
                            pub: Mountaineers (in Seattle) ??

Woods, Robert            "Pleasure Backkpacking"
                       ..equipment review;
                         From: [e-mail] (Kelvin Cheu)


???                       "Simple Foods for the Pack"

???                        "Ordeal by Hunger"
                            history of Donner Pass expedition

??               "Men against the Mountains"  history of Jed Smith's
                expeditions

??               "Mountaineering, the Freedom of the Hills"

??                        "The Complete Wilderness Paddler"

I've seen just such a book in the book store (I think the Nature
Company, though it may have been a backcountry supply place).  I
think the name is "To Walk With A Quiet Mind", or something like
that.  It is published by Sierra Club Books (I'm sure of that :-) ).
As I thumbed through it, it seemed to be kind of what you are talking
about (I haven't bought it yet).

Books on K2 that are reasonable intertainment:

K2 - The Savage Mtn, Houston, 58 American Expedition.
The Throne Room of the Gods, Galen Rowell - American 74 Expedition.
K2 - The Last Step, John Roskelly - American 78 Expedition.
K2, Renhiold Messner - 79 Expedition.
K2, Shapiro Climbing Club - Japanesse 84 North Ridge Expedition.

K2 - Triumph and Tragedy, Jim Curran - Chronicle of 1986, wherein
          27 climbers made the summit, and 13 climbers died.  A
          first-hand account of a climbing season on K2 I'm sure no
          one would like to see repeated.


Not to be too pessimistic, the current issue of the "new" Summit has reprinted
Giono's inspiring story "The Man Who Planted Trees".   I had always thought
this was a true story, but the introduction refers to it as a "short story"
and the author as a novelist, so I wonder.   Anybody know if Eleazar Bouffier
was real?   His business plan was funded by God, not by venture capitalists,
or multinational wood/pulp companies.


I recommend reading "The Milagro Beanfield War".  Besides being an
excellent book it provides a different perspective on the grazing
rights issue.  It will make you laugh.  It will make you cry.  It
will make you wonder what hell right the US government had in appropriating
the land in the first place. :-)
   Surprising good movie, IMHO, directed by Robert Redford.  Says Maltin
   (Movie and Video Guide, 1992):

        Spirited, fanciful tale of a rugged individualist (dirt-poor,
        hard luck ...) who decides to stand up to the big, brash
        developers who plan to milk his (and his neighbors') New Mexico
        land for all it's worth.  Distilled from John Nichols'
        sprawling novel by Nichols and David Ward, this film takes a
        whimsical tone that's positively infectious...aided by a
        top ensemble cast, beautiful scenery, and Dave Grusin's
        lyrical, Oscar-winning score.

COLORADO RIVER / LAKE POWELL TIDBITS
        * From:  "The Colorado River Through Grand Canyon:  Natural
          History and Human Change", Steven Carothers and Bryan Brown,
          University of Arizona Press, 1991, QH105.A65C38, ISBN
          0-8165-1232-9; and other sources.

>A few years back I read a really tasty book, called
>"Beyond Spaceship Earth" (edited by Hargrove, 1988?, Sirra Club Books).
>It's a collection of papers concerning man's future envolvement
>with space.   All sort of nifty ethical questions.
>Some "down to earth",  progressing to the far out.
>Like control of space junk.  Nucks in space.
>Control of artificial satalites.


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Jack Kerouac in Dharma Bums.
Though it isn't educational.


" Acendo o cigarro para adiar a viagem,
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>
>[e-mail] (Stuart W. Marlatt) writes:
>P.S. Sending more SB's to Ilana today.
I'll look her up this week. You must have found a magic SB fountain...
[...]
>>        Mark Twain (Clemens).
see Ascent, III.

>>        Norbert Casteret.
>
>We don't have NC, and I don't have time to look up his writings.
>But if you could elaborate.
Thought he might get by you. Classic accounts of early French caving.
_The Years Under the Earth_, _The Darkness Under the Earth_, others.

>  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
>Seeking Books to buy:    Bongard, Pattern Recognition
>            3 down 1 to go.
Have you checked with Spartan Books?


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