[pct-l] Books for tent reading

[medusaj at aol.com (medusaj@aol.com)]

No one's mentioned my favorite:  Annie Dillard's A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.  County and I began it as tent-reading somewhere in Massachusetts on the AT.  Unfortunately, we still haven't finished it.  But if you're looking for a book that's going to open your eyes to the transcendence in nature, and give you lots of interesting biological tidbits to boot, this is the book for you.  It's also beautiful read aloud.
 
Another (much shorter) book by her is Holy the Firm, which I heard for the first time read aloud around the campfire on a trip in Georgia.  It's darker, but set in the Pacific Northwest, if I recall.  And you'll be sure to get through it in a week.
 
Both are light if purchased in the right editions.
 
And a question for the list at large:  why are so many of the definitive PCT books written by women, and so many similar AT books written by men?
 
Marzipan
 
 
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:54:51 -0800
From: "Matt Bradley" <bodhisattvavow@hotmail.com>
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It's not exactly a page turner but Walden by H.D. Thoreau is excellent for
appreciating the natural world.
Peace and Love,
Matt