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The Man Who Walked Through Time by: Colin Fletcher List Price: £12.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £10.80 You Save: £1.20 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.91320453 EAN: 9780679723066 ISBN: 0679723064 Label: Random House USA Inc Manufacturer: Random House USA Inc Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: December 31, 1989 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Studio: Random House USA Inc Sales Rank: 306790 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An inspirationColin Fletcher captures the magnificence of the Grand Canyon with his self effacing prose. The simplicity of his style belies the power of the content, the pace becomes addictive. Not for those poor souls looking for a tour guide, more for those of us seeking harmony with the natural world.A masterpiece. Rating:  - The man who walked through time moved slower then a sloth!I am an avid backpacker as well as an avid book reader. I picked this book up after finding it on a reading list handed out by one of my perfesors. I expected an adventure full of zeal and corisma, but found only a mundan account of on man's attempt at bieng profound. Colin Fletcher uterly failed and should be banished. *Note to Colin Fletcher- Please Don't write any more BooKs! Rating:  - Seems forcedFletcher, supposedly the first man to walk the length of the Grand Canyon, below the Rim (seems unlikely), wrote a book about it. I must say I'm sorely disappointed in the result. It's horribly repetitive and boring, to begin with (he repeats his descriptions of how the Canyon formed again and again, for example). But my main objection is that Fletcher was determined before the trip began to have some sort of "break" with his old self, to become a new man, to have new heights of understanding. So every time he had some new impression of the Canyon, he would go on and on about how "now I had finally escaped the trivia of everyday life. Now at last I no longer needed to scrutinize the wildlife; I had become part of it," and so forth. ... Read More: Rating: - A book as alluring as the Grand Canyon itselfColin Fletcher's THE MAN WHO WALKED THROUGH TIME is as alluring as the Grand Canyon itself. Why? It successfully fuses human spirit with rock, water, bush, and animal. We walk the Tonto plateau above the Colorado River with Mr. Fletcher and even beyond because our senses are stimulated to wonder, sometimes worry, about what's around the next bend. We feel the heat, we experience the spiney shaft of a cactus plant, we see the ravens soar above in desert skies, and we pray that we will make it to the next cache of supplies and cool water. For those of us seemingly locked into the corporate world of time, pressure, and demands for productive performance, this book provides necessary relief. And yet, there are different pressures, different times, and ... Read More: |
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