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The Man Who Walked Through Time (1968) is Colin Fletcher's chronicle of the first person to walk a continuous route through Grand Canyon National Park. [1] The book is credited with "introducing an increasingly nature-hungry public to the spiritual and physical rewards of backpacking".
His first book, The Thousand-Mile Summer (1964) recounted his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. His second book was The Man Who Walked Through Time (1968), in which Fletcher was the first person to walk a continuous route through Grand Canyon National Park. The book covered such topics as technique, the journey itself, and ...
A Walk through the Year (1978) A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers (1982, published posthumously) Books About Edwin Way Teale. Of Nature Time And Teale: A Biographical Sketch of Edwin Way Teale by Edward H. Dodd Jr., Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York, 1960.
"A Walk Through Time" features re-enactors, dressed in period clothing, sharing the life stories and accomplishments of prominent people who are buried in the historic cemetery. The presentations ...
Scott Frank first read the novel A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block in 1998. [9] The book is the tenth in a series featuring the character of Matthew Scudder. Frank said about the book: "What was interesting about this story is that it wasn't just a mystery, it was also frightening, intense— it was a real thriller.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, written by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton University economist, is a book on the subject of stock markets which popularized the random walk hypothesis. Malkiel argues that asset prices typically exhibit signs of a random walk , and thus one cannot consistently outperform market averages .
A Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana. While on his journey of self-discovery, he engaged himself in others' lives ...
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us—The Evolution of Life on Earth (with Sidney Liebes and Elisabet Sahtouris), John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0-471-31700-4 "Cosmological Education for Future Generations", Chapter 5 in The Thirteenth Labor: Improving Science Education , edited by Eric Chaisson and Tae-Chang Kim, CRC Press , 1999, ISBN ...