The Thousand Mile Summer

The Thousand Mile Summer

"The Thousand Mile Summer", in desert and high sierra, 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 Sierras. The book was first published in 1964.

Quotes

:"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."


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