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Powell River, BC
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Posted - 10/05/2011 : 11:34 AM
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Peter,
Second your vote for A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Amazing! |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
1111 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 12:10 PM
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Addicted to Danger:A Memoir about Affirming Life in the Face of Death.
by Jim Wickwire.
I've read a lot of Mountaineering literature and I find this story one of the better told ones. Poor guy has seen a lot of people die. |
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
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surrey, british columbia
Canada
194 Posts |
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Victoria, BC
Canada
415 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 1:33 PM
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
... and porn.
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 opinionated-stove huggin'-fleece wearin'-arse burnin' hill virgin
Here
Canada
4642 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 1:37 PM
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| I'm fickle, my favorite book changes all the time...right now I'm currently re-reading Colin Fletcher's "The Man Who Walked Through Time" (c) 1968. It's one of my dear favorites. |
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Surrey, BC
Canada
119 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 1:53 PM
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The Celestine Prophecy novel by James Redfield
The movie made no sense...don't ever watch the movie.
Just read the book.
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Trail blazin', backcountry bushwackin', pine huntin', photo takin', long winded story teller
3838 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 2:36 PM
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Originally posted by no quitting
The Bears and I (raising three cubs in the North Woods)by Robert Franklin Leslie (heartbreaker)
I am more into historical exploration books but I did enjoy The Bears and I since I was around Takla Lake and read the book many, many years ago. It started out on Babine Lake and then they moved to the NW arm of Takla Lake and he let them go on the east side of Takla Lake. A Walt Disney TV movie was made about it.
Another good book of that area is Driftwood Valley written by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, about a husband and wife team of naturalists that befriended and studied the local wolf pack. I have seen descendents of that pack. The Driftwood River flows into the north end of Takla Lake.
I have been to Tetana Lake where William Charley's grandfather let them use his cabin at that lake which is the location they were at. The cabin was almost rotted away and William Charley resurrected it when I was up there.
A book more recent than the previous and not for most people on this forum is Horns In The High Country by Andy Russel. About his life in the Rockies and his adventures well filming and observing sheep in the East Kootenays and Parks.
Besides reading a bunch of government historical surveys which are extremely boring but interesting if you are into that kind of thing one of the best books I have read is about the history of the Yukon called Prelude To Bonanza by Allen A Wright.
A lot of major explorers, traders and government surveyors are mentioned in it and that explains why so many land marks are named after these frontier people. |
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Edmonton, AB
Canada
47 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 2:49 PM
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Originally posted by peter1955
One more: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.
Truly a mountaineer's book, with some quite technical descriptions that might put it beyond the reach of people who don't know the terminology. Immensely griping, though, dealing with life-or-death decisions of the kind that any one of us might have to make someday.
I second Peter's mention of Touching the Void. I was surprised how captivated I was, considering the technical language that I didn't know anything about when I started reading it. There was a documentary made of the story, and it was good, but the book was much better. |
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Poco, BC
Canada
405 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2011 : 9:47 PM
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plague year, jeff carlson
it's a book that a 14 months after reading it, the idea behind it still makes me think of 'what if'. it is part of a trilogy, and the first and second books are well written, but the concept and more specifically how you as an individual would fit in to it is what makes the story so interesting. |
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Smurf Village, BC
Canada
1495 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2011 : 06:36 AM
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My favourite keeps changing!
An all time favourite: Armor by John Steakley
Bloodiest favourite: Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Non-fiction favourite: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
and of course, the book that keeps on giving,
Scrambles by Matt Gunn |
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Powell River, BC
372 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2011 : 10:31 AM
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| Wildman, I second your vote for Driftwood Valley. Again I was lucky enough to find a second hand copy. |
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Not too far from Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
224 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2011 : 10:44 AM
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My top three:
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Yeager: An Autobiography - Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
River God - Wilbur Smith
I also love almost everything by George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, and Paulo Coelho.
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surrey, british columbia
Canada
194 Posts |
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Sunshine Coast, BC
Canada
250 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2011 : 3:36 PM
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"Life Of Pi'
by Yann Martel
a worthy read |
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Powell River, bc
Canada
2529 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2011 : 6:26 PM
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Hiking solo, I loved the Power of one,did you read Tandya? I liked all his books really :)
His books set in Australia are good too :) I can't even have a fav. anymore,too many!!! I've read like 25 books just since I've moved here,and I'm NEVER home LOL!!!! |
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Not too far from Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
224 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2011 : 07:01 AM
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Originally posted by no quitting
Hiking solo, I loved the Power of one,did you read Tandya? I liked all his books really :)
I did read Tandia (just a couple of years ago, actually), but I found I didn't like it quite as much as The Power of One; to be fair, though, I think it was because I was really excited to read it and was maybe expecting too much out it. I do think that it's about time for me to re-read it, though, so thank you for mentioning it - it'll help keep me busy during the intermissions at hockey games this weekend   |
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Whats your favorite book?
