Nature reading?

[Joe S.]

I like to read about the natural world during the winter. I recently read two very good books about wolves written by experts on the subject. This is a controversial issue where I live, so I wanted some facts. Doing any nature reading this season?

[Hikenhunter]

I'm almost finished with one called THE ONLY KAYAK, it's about a guy who went to Glacier Bay in Alaska in the '70s, became a park ranger, then a writer and photographer, and how commercilization of Glacier Bay changed the area from then until now. I picked up my next book at a flea market a couple weeks ago entitled " 21,500 MILES ALONE IN A CANOE" by Don B. Watson. It's an older book but looks like it will be a good read.

[Barney]

Originally Posted by Joe S.

I like to read about the natural world during the winter. I recently read two very good books about wolves written by experts on the subject. This is a controversial issue where I live, so I wanted some facts. Doing any nature reading this season?

I do but mostly online and I hate what Internet has done to me. I became much sloppier because I usually don't have enough patience to grab a book and finish it. What books did you read?

[Grandpa]

Currently working over "Healing Plants of the Rocky Mountains".

[IndianaHiker]

Just recently finished " Things you see on the Appalachian Trail" "What of the Buddha Dated" ": The Way to a Meaningful Life" by Dalai Lama, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the heart on the Appalachian Trail. In addition to those numerous trail maps and several online guides to the Smokey Mountains getting ready for another trip there next week. I love the internet download books and maps to my tablet and never have to go to the bookstore. Like last night was laying awake at midnight. Thinking I would like to read something. Grabbed my tablet and clicked on the Google Play Store. Downloaded the newest copy of Backpacker Magazine for $3.99. Great thing to be able to do that. Never even got out of bed, and it was cheaper than the drug store sells it for.

[ppine]

I am reading the "Journal of Patrick Gass." From the Lewis and Clark expedition, his book was the first published after they returned from the Pacific. He lived to be 99 years old. The writing style is easy to understand from a contemporary point of view. Gass was a skilled carpenter and hunter, and a leader.

On our trip down the Missouri R from Ft Benton in 1999, my brother became Charboneau, Capt Stevie we called Sgt Gass, and they called me Lewis. Maybe because I was mentally unstable and capable of rash judgements.

[Joe S.]

I have done quite a bit of reading about Lewis and Clark. I do recall that Gass was the first to publish his journal. I have not read it, but I really should. I would love to read about the expedition from one of the perspective of one of the enlisted men.

[ghostdog]

I do a lot of reading and outdoor themes are my favorite.

If you like canoe tales, check out Canoeing with the Cree, a 1935 book by Eric Sevareid.

Another good canoe adventure is A Death on the Barrens by George Grinnell.

[dinosaur]

Like the rest of you, I've done some reading. My favorite book is "Naked Into The Wilderness". But most of what I managed to learn came from hanging around older guys. My Dad, my Grandpa, my uncles, some guys I met on the trail.

Most of my friends were either much younger than me or much older. I learned from the older guys and passed it on to the younger ones. My favorite people are hunters, farmers and woodsmen. I do a little of all three and get by just fine.

[ppine]

Ghostdog,
Good ones. When I was young I read about Arctic explorers all the time. Later I read the canoeing of Arctic Rivers. Canoeing with the Cree is a great one.