Colin Fletcher





Colin Fletcher

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born
March 14, 1922 in Cardiff, Wales, The United Kingdom

died
June 12, 2007

gender
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Colin Fletcher was a pioneering backpacker and writer.

In 1963, Fletcher became the first to walk the length of Grand Canyon entirely within the rim of the canyon "in one go" — only second to complete the entire journey — as chronicled in his bestselling 1968 memoir The Man Who Walked Through Time. Through his influential hiker's guide, The Complete Walker, published the same year, he became a kind of "spiritual godfather" of the wilderness backpacking movement. Through successive editions, this book became the definitive work on the topic, and was christened "the Hiker's Bible" by Field and Stream magazine.


Average rating: 3.93 · 757 ratings · 113 reviews · 19 distinct works
The Man Who Walked Through ...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions
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The Complete Walker IV
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Complete Walker III
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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River : One Man's Journey D...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Thousand-Mile Summer
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 74 ratings4 editions
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The New Complete Walker: Th...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1974
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The Complete Walker: The Jo...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings2 editions
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The Man From The Cave
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings2 editions
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Secret Worlds of Colin Flet...
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The Winds Of Mara
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“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”
Colin Fletcher