[pct-l] Bring Guidebooks or Maps?

[Kevin Cook]

Maybe try a book of short stories? Edward Abbey's "Down The River" is pretty
great, but there are several compilations of his essays on Amazon.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> And for me it was just the opposite, I fell asleep with the first novel I
> tried, and left it in a hiker box. I usually love novels, but just wanted a
> bit of beautiful language to match the beauty of the day.  A bit of poetry,
> and I was good to go, and slept like a log.  But then I was dog tired by
> the
> time I got in my bag, so maybe it's just that the poetry was shorter.
>  Hell,
> it wasn't the quality, it was the lack of quantity!  I just needed sleep.
>  Maybe a really short trashy novel, like one page, would have been just as
> good.
>
> Thanks for the Neruda.  He's still great, and the Inuit poem is wonderful.
>  I do like beauty on trail, and in human tongues.
>
> Shroomer
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