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[AWG_Pics]

O.K. WTW bibliophiles... You got us on a physical book reading binge. This is what we are reading before taking our swing through the southwest in late February. thanks for all the suggestions!

 

Tony

 

 

 

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[kramme]

Looks fun, there is nothing better than reading about the area one is in and a bonus is while enjoying beer!

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Tony, add in Eating Stone by Elen Meloy.  Finders Keepers/Stone Desert/House of Rain/The Secret Knowledge of Water, all by Craig Childs.   In Search of the Old Ones, David Roberts.

 

Steve

[Smokecreek1]

Just finished a very good book, that any traveler or dog owner will love.

"Be More Dog" by Rene Agredano and Jim Nelson

 

It's a story about them taking their newly diagnosed dog with cancer and 3 legs on a year long road trip. so the dog can enjoy himself. But it is also about living in the moment as dogs do. Its well written and enjoyable. Available on Amazon as well as their website bemoredog.net

 

Enjoy 

In 07/08, I went through that/did that with my old Aust.Shep "Babe" -who some of you knew back then.  She only lasted 7 months (6 of them great and worth every moment) after they cut her leg off, but it was allot better the first alternative! I  don't know if I could read something like that now, but thanks I will put the web site down for further look someday.  That seems like along time ago, but I just lost her successor after another long illness after almost 12 years and I now have a new "Deva" border collie to learn to, love.  Having a dog pardner for however long it lasts, seems to be part of life's adventures!

 

Smoke

[AWG_Pics]

Tony, add in Eating Stone by Elen Meloy.  Finders Keepers/Stone Desert/House of Rain/The Secret Knowledge of Water, all by Craig Childs.   In Search of the Old Ones, David Roberts.

 

Steve

Steve,

I ordered used copies of Elen, David and one of Craig's books.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Tony

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[Wandering Sagebrush]

Tony, my pleasure, you’re welcome.  See you in the desert...

[buckland]

ME!

Check out Recursion by Blake Crouch

Just finished this...entertaining! Thanks for the steer.
Rob

[LuckyDan]

Now for something totally different. Re-read “The Oregon Desert” by Reub Long and E.R. Jackman. Helps keep things in perspective.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Now for something totally different. Re-read “The Oregon Desert” by Reub Long and E.R. Jackman. Helps keep things in perspective.

That is a great book!

[Ronin]

There are so many great books that have been mentioned. How will I ever find the time to read them or even some of them?

 

Even so, I have 4 more for people to consider:

 

- The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard Devoto https://www.amazon.c...y/dp/B005ZWDDHU  Anything by Devoto is worth reading -- what a wild man of letters with a passion for conservation he was! Wallace Stegner wrote a biography of him.

 

- Idaho for the Curious by Cort Conley (part atlas, mostly a framework for interesting historical tidbits and histories of Idaho.)

 

- The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick -- wolverines are way more kick-bu__ than you could ever have imagined.

 

- Bretz's Flood - about a rebel geologist that first described the Channeled Scablands of Washington and the numerous outbursts of glacial lake Missoula.

 

I am awaiting four books I just ordered from the great reading list suggested by everyone. Thanks!

Tony

Just read The Wolverine Way - thanks for the recommendation. In the process of mapping out our Glacier NP trip for this fall and our plans include hiking a few of the trails used for tracking these incredible animals.