The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher

Given that, many people enjoy reading about famous people.

It takes a bit of expert psychology to figure this out, and often famous people leave a trail of red herrings to distract the investigator and hide what they want hidden. Can this be done? With modern day subjects it is usually not too difficult to piece together the chronological events of a person’s life with comprehensive investigation – but this doesn’t necessarily tell us who the subject really was. One problem with a biography is the need for the author to get into the head of the subject.

(2002) The Complete Walker IV, co-written with Chip Rawlins.

(1997) River tells Fletcher’s 1989 trip hiking and rafting the entire length of the Colorado River (beginning with the source of the Green River, which flows into the Colorado).

(1989) The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher contains several essays.

(1984) The Complete Walker III (this is the best of the series).

Many of the key locations in the book are areas in Southern California I have walked many times. He begins a quest to find out who the owner of the trunk was and draws many comparisons between this man, Chuckwalla Bill, and himself. Fletcher finds a trunk in a remote desert canyon in Nevada. This was the first of four “Complete Walker” books.

(1968) The Complete Walker thrust Fletcher into enduring fame with his comprehensive tome on backpacking techniques and equipment.

Harvey Butchart did it first through a series of section hikes over 17 years and his identification of routes made it possible for Fletcher to complete the hike.

(1968) The Man Who Walked Through Time chronicles his 1963 walk through Grand Canyon National Park, the first person to do this hike in one through hike.

(1964) The Thousand Mile Summer recounts Fletcher’s six month hike through California’s eastern area through deserts and mountains in 1958.

Perhaps someday I will review some of them. Here is a listing of all his books in chronological order. The one book I did not read is The Winds of Mara, an account of the author’s time spent in Kenya’s Mara Animal Preserve observing wildlife, land, people and his reflection of what is good and bad, and his thoughts for the future. Fletcher wrote 10 books in his lifetime of which I have read 9 of them several times. WHY?īackground Photo by John Sexton on Wikipediaįirst, let’s start with a little background. I did buy it for a friend, but will pass on reading it myself. I have never heard of the author but the reviews have generally been very good. You can purchase the book from Amazon as a Kindle version for $9.99 or paperback for $18.53. Colin Fletcher is known as the “Father of Backpacking” and Robert Wehman has just published the only biography of the reclusive man.

The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher