Colin Fletcher

The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.

The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon

The Man Who Walked Through Time

Chip Rawlins

Discusses the latest developments in backpacking equipment and in attitudes towards the environment, and provides information on hiking techniques, clothing, first aid, cooking, selecting a campsite, and wilderness life.

The Complete Walker IV

Colin Fletcher relates the experiences of his two month hike through the Grand Canyon and describes the awesome timelessness and vastness of this lonely region.

With Photos Taken en Route by the Author

The Man who Walked Through Time

Details the author's six-month foot-and-raft journey from the source of the Colorado River in Wyoming to its conclusion in Mexico's Gulf of California

One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea

River

Sociology is about society, but what about people? The person in the sight of sociology is all too often a matchstick being. In this original and stimulating book the person is characterized by what is inherent in a social being, and the result is a rich narrative, the story of the person told through events in life. The author holds that for sociological purposes, the person must be seen as perfect: perfectible, perfecting and perfect. He outlines the ‘trialectical’ nature of such a theory, offers a test of it in the making of madness and claims that such a change in vision is appropriate for the sociologist’s critical engagement in the world. It may be claimed that Colin Fletcher has created a new realm of theorizing and a piece of literature for sociology. And, perhaps as important, the reader may catch the rare experience of being spoken with as a person by another person.

The Person in the Sight of Sociology (RLE Social Theory)

The discovery in a Nevada desert cave of what appeared to be a man's total belongings inspired this carefully researched account of a man who was a soldier, a prospector, and a wanderer

The Man from the Cave

A spellbinding account of a journey on foot from one end of California to the other--from Mexico to Oregon--by the author of The Complete Walker and The Man Who Walked Through Time.

The Thousand-Mile Summer

An Account of Three Styles of Sociological Research

Beneath the Surface

The Vegetarian Werewolf

We meet a skinny half-starved boy in an English churchyard planting primroses on his brother’s grave. We follow John and his long family through a most turbulent century.

White Clyffe

Jane Massey

Harry's older sister always tricks him out of his fair share of treats, but one day, with Mom's help, he has the last laugh.

Count Your Cookies

At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular vistas on earth, and Fletcher is the ideal guide for the terrain. As his privileged companions, we travel to places like Disaster Falls and Desolation Canyon, observe beaver and elk, experience sandstorms and whitewater rapids, and share Fletcher's thoughts on the human race, the environment, and the joys of solitude.

In this latest book, Fletcher writes about some of the most profound pleasures that nature has brought him over the years.

Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher

In books such as The Complete Walker and The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher has established a reputation as a literate and witty apostle of roughing it. His newest book is a highly personal celebration of solitary backpacking (and day walking, too), in the wild places of the world, and of all the attendant pleasures: of finding a foothold in difficult terrain, of catching a glimpse of an unsuspecting coyote, of healing the wounds that civilization inevitably inflicts on human nature —of simply “mucking about.” Overflowing with fresh descriptions of nature and with the wisdom of a curmudgeonly Thoreau, this book is a must for backpackers and all unconstrained spirits.

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