Book Review Archives - PopUpBackpacker https://popupbackpacker.com/category/book-review/ Nick's Excellent Camping and Backpacking Adventures Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:59:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://popupbackpacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cropped-avatar-backpacking2-e1475607492124-32x32.jpg Book Review Archives - PopUpBackpacker https://popupbackpacker.com/category/book-review/ 32 32 38683869 Book Review: The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher https://popupbackpacker.com/book-review-the-man-who-walked-through-time-by-colin-fletcher/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:54:21 +0000 https://popupbackpacker.com/?p=150949 Yesterday I posted a book review of The Thousand Mile Summer the first book written by Colin Fletcher. In that post I shared that three books influenced me to consider venturing into deserts and I moved to a desert in 1977, where I still live. Each of these books have stood the test of time, … Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher →

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]]> 150949 Book Review: The Thousand Mile Summer, by Colin Fletcher https://popupbackpacker.com/book-review-the-thousand-mile-summer-by-colin-fletcher/ Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:33:11 +0000 https://popupbackpacker.com/?p=150942 Over 50 years ago, on a hot summer day, I helped one of my brothers move to the Mojave Desert where he was starting college. The heat was like a blast furnance. His car overheated several times, resulting in a blown head gasket. After unloading his belongings and a fitful night of sleep, I left, … Continue reading Book Review: The Thousand Mile Summer, by Colin Fletcher →

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]]> 150942 Book Review — How to Survive Your First Trip in the Wild: Backpacking for Beginners https://popupbackpacker.com/book-review-how-to-survive-your-first-trip-in-the-wild-backpacking-for-beginners/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:00:15 +0000 http://popupbackpacker.com/?p=147405 As the title states, this is a guide for beginners. Given this, the author accomplishes this goal in an easy to read, compact package. In this age of Internet experts, we often are bombarded with information from dubious sources and of questionable expertise. So the first place to start with this review is the author’s … Continue reading Book Review — How to Survive Your First Trip in the Wild: Backpacking for Beginners →

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]]> 147405 Book Review: The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide, 2nd Edition https://popupbackpacker.com/book-review-the-ultimate-hikers-gear-guide-2nd-edition/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:22:45 +0000 http://popupbackpacker.com/?p=16559 This is a review of The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail, by Andrew Skurka, published by National Geographic. I don’t do many book reviews. I have uploaded close to 700 posts and pages to this site and I think there are only 5 or 6 book reviews. There was … Continue reading Book Review: The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide, 2nd Edition →

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]]> 16559 Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher (a biography) https://popupbackpacker.com/walking-man-the-secret-life-of-colin-fletcher-a-biography/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:28:21 +0000 http://popupbackpacker.com/?p=13620 THIS IS A BOOK I WON’T BE READING     Colin Fletcher is known as the “Father of Backpacking” and Robert Wehman has just published the only biography of the reclusive man. You can purchase the book from Amazon as a Kindle version for $9.99 or paperback for $18.53. I have never heard of the author … Continue reading Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher (a biography) →

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